Pragmatic Competence and Relevance

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Publisher: John Benjamins
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 245
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by distinct criteria and validated testing measures. More importantly, genuine pragmatic inference is elicited in contexts of online interpretation where figurative speech plays a central role. Genre-specific discourse which occurs in editorials and news reports serves as a natural testbed for examining the role of advanced mind-reading abilities in developing pragmatic competence. Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory accommodates the findings of empirical assessment and yields new insights in the cognitive procedures activated during interpretation. The comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of pragmatic competence makes this book of interest to researchers and students in pragmatics, L2 theory and applications, genre studies, and to those concerned with the cognitive underpinnings of communication in L2.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction

The scope of pragmatics
Pragmatic meaning in L2
Genres and pragmatic competence
Relevance theory and communication
Pragmatic competence revisited
The data
Conclusion: From genre(s) to pragmatic inference

References
Appendix: Editorials
Index

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