New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics

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New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future. Preface Acknowledgements Contents List of contributors Introduction Part I: Learning and teaching speech acts 1 Pragmatic competence and speech-act research in second language pragmatics 2 Systemic functional linguistics applied to analyze L2 speech acts: Analysis of advice-giving in a written text 3 Learning about L2 Spanish requests abroad through classroom and ethnography-based pragmatics instruction 4 Effectiveness of a post-study abroad pedagogical intervention in learning compliments and compliment responses in L2 Spanish 5 ¡Madre mía de mi alma!: Pragmalinguistic variation and gender differences in perception of piropos in Badajoz, Spain Part II: Assessing pragmatic competence 6 Assessing L2 pragmatic competence 7 Testing of L2 pragmatics: The challenge of implicit knowledge 8 The DCT as a data collection method for L2 humor production 9 Strategic competence and pragmatic proficiency in L2 role plays Part III: Analyzing discourses in L2 digital contexts 10 Researching digital discourse in second language pragmatics 11 Pragmalinguistic variation in L2 Spanish e-mail requests: Learner strategies and instructor perceptions 12 Affordances of game-enhanced learning: A classroom intervention for enhancing concept-based pragmatics instruction Part IV: Current issues in L2 pragmatics 13 Explicit knowledge in L2 pragmatics? 14 Studying speech acts: An expanded scope and refined methodologies 15 Converging agendas of rationalist and discursive approaches for the development of a pedagogy of L2 pragmatics 16 From a native-nonnative speaker dichotomy to a translingual framework 17 An introduction to discourse markers Epilogue: A personal tribute to Andrew Cohen Index