Speech act performance : theoretical, empirical and methodological issues / edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Esther Usó-Juan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martínez Flor, Alicia.

Usó Juan, Esther.

Series:

Language learning and language teaching ; v. 26.

Language learning & language teaching, 1569-9471 ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Speech.

Physical Description:

xiv, 277 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suggestions are acts in which the speaker asks the hearer to perform an action that will potentially benefit the hearer (Rintell, 1979). Despite this fact, they have been regarded as face-threatening acts, since the speaker is in some way intruding into the hearer's world by performing an act that concerns what the latter should do (Brown & Levinson, 1987). For this reason, formulating pragmatically appropriate suggestions that do not result in impolite or rude behaviour may be especially difficult for second language learners whose contact with the target language is very limited. With that aim in mind, and based on previous studies on this speech act, this chapter proposes a pedagogical approach that ranges from awareness-raising to production activities.

Contents:

Section I. Theoretical groundings: Pragmatics and speech act performance / Alicia Martínez-Flor & Esther Usó-Juan

Section II. Empirical foundations: The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance / Lisa M. Kuriscak

Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTS, role plays, and verbal reports / J. César Félix-Brasdefer

Conversation analysis and speech act performance / Marta González-Lloret

Culture and its effect on speech act performance / Ardith J. Meier

Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance / Gila A. Schauer

Speech act performance in workplace settings / Lynda Yates

The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance / Satomi Takahashi

Section III. Methodological innovations: Apologies: raising learners' cross-cultural awareness / Sachiko Kondo

Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport / Diana Boxer

Compliments and responses to compliments: learning communication in context / Noriko Ishihara

Disagreement: how to disagree agreeably / Lewis H. Malamed

Refusals: how to develop appropriate refusal strategies / Zohreh R. Eslami

Requests: a sociopragmatic approach / Esther Usó-Juan

Suggestions: how social norms affect pragmatic behaviour / Alicia Martínez-Flor.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612558580

9781282558588

1282558587

9789027288363

9027288364

OCLC:

613207267