Teaching, learning and investigating pragmatics : principles, methods and practices / edited by Sara Gesuato, Francesca Bianchi and Winnie Cheng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gesuato, Sara.

Bianchi, Francesca (Linguist)

Cheng, Winnie

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics--Congresses.

Pragmatics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 567 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Contents:

Preface / Sara Gesuato, Francesca Bianchi and Winnie Cheng

Introduction / Francesca Bianchi

Part I: Principles, Methods and Practices in Pragmatics and Pragmatics-Focused Pedagogy: Section 1. Teaching and Learning: Chapter One. Teachers' perceptions of email requests: insights for teaching pragmatics in study abroad contexts / Eva Alcón-Soler

Chapter Two. "Teacher! You need to give me back my homework:" assessing students' needs for a pragmatics curriculum in an academic ESL program / Patricia Frenz-Belkin

Chapter Three. Pragmatic competence, length of residence, amount of contact and intensity of interaction / Zohreh R. Eslami and Soojin Ahn

Chapter Four. Comparing textbooks and TV series as sources of pragmatic input for learners of Italian as a second language: the case of compliments and invitations

Chapter Five. Teaching L2 pragmatics: from an empirical study to recommendations for pedagogical practice / Phyllisienne Gauci

Section 2. Testing and Assessing: Chapter Six. Designing instructional effect studies for L2 pragmatics: a guide for teachers and researchers / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

Chapter Seven. "You have no choice:" pragmatic considerations in current language test instruments / Richard Chapman

Chapter Eight. DCTs versus naturally occurring data in the realization of disagreement by non-native speakers of English / Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

Chapter Nine. The use of corpora to identify the pragmatic knowledge associated with different levels of language proficiency / María Luisa Carrió-Pastor and Miguel Casas Gómez

Part II: Principles, Methods and Practices in Specific Areas of Pragmatic Competence: Section 3. Conversation. Chapter Ten. An interaction-focused pedagogy based on conversation analysis for developing L2 pragmatic competence / Anna Filipi and Anne-Marie Barraja-Rohan

Chapter Eleven. Topic management and interactional competence in Spanish L2 conversation / Marta García García

Chapter Twelve. Peer and teacher feedback in improving pragmatic conversation skills / William Collins

Chapter Thirteen. Towards a pedagogical framework to develop the listenership of Japanese EFL/ESL learners / Pino Cutrone

Section 4. Speech Acts. Chapter Fourteen. Criteria for the identification of moves: the case of written offers / Sara Gesuato

Chapter Fifteen. "Thanks a bunch:" cross-cultural comparison of the speech act of thanking / Winnie Cheng and Andy Seto

Chapter Sixteen. The variability of compliment responses: Italian and German data / Marina Castagneto and Miriam Ravetto

Chapter Seventeen. Universality and relativity in cross-cultural pragmatics: requests and apologies in English and Italian / Loredana Pozzuoli

Section 5. Aspects of grammar: Chapter Eighteen. The acquisition of emotional competence in L2 learners of Italian through specific instructional training / Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone

Chapter Nineteen. Denn, eigentlich, überhaupt: three "pragmatic particles" in German / Marion Weerning

Chapter Twenty. Instructional advantages of a pragmatic account of mood distribution in Spanish complements / Patxi Laskurian-Ibarluzea

Chapter Twenty One. Conversational implicatures in the Croatian EFL classroom / Ana Werkmann Horvat and Ana Kevdeš

Chapter Twenty Two. Some, and possibly all, adults compute scalar implicatures / Yhara M. Formisano

Notes:

Papers from the conference: "Pragmatics on the go: teaching and learning about pragmatics--principles, methods and practices" hosted by the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at the University of Padua, Italy from 17 to 20 June, 2013.

Includes bibliogaphic references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443883320

1443883328

1443877190

9781443877190

OCLC:

925440509

Publisher Number:

99964740350