Pragmatics of Chinese as a Second Language

✍ Scribed by Shuai Li

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 376
• Series: Second Language Acquisition; 165
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of empirical studies examines multiple aspects involved in the acquisition, teaching and assessment of pragmatics in second language Chinese. The studies address themes such as novel pragmatic features, methodological innovations in pragmatic assessment, individual difference factors and virtual learning contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Research on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995–2022): A State-of-the-Art Review
Part 1 Acquisition of Key Pragmatic Features
2 ‘Softening the Tone?’: A Corpus-Based Study of the Utterance-Final Pragmatic Particle BA (吧) between L1 and L2 Chinese Speakers
3 L2 Chinese Internet Slang Learning: Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners’ Knowledge and Motivation
4 Effects of Proficiency and Situation Type on the Production of L2 Chinese Request Strategies by Japanese Learners
Part 2 Methodological Innovations for Pragmatics Assessment
5 Using a Slide Ruler to Assess Accuracy and Certainty in L2 Chinese Implicature Comprehension
6 An Exploratory Study on a Natural Language Processing Approach to Evaluating L2 Pragmatic Performance
7 Using the Rasch Model to Evaluate Instrument and Data Quality in Assessing Requests in L2 Chinese
Part 3 Individual Difference Factors in Pragmatics Acquisition
8 Proficiency, Motivation and Production of Conventional Expressions in L2 Chinese
9 Learning Strategies for Pragmatic Routines by Learners of L2 Chinese
Part 4 Web-Based Approaches to Teaching and Learning Pragmatics
10 Effects of Website- Delivered Instruction on Development of Pragmatic Awareness in L2 Chinese
11 Is a Game More Appealing than an Online Lesson for L2 Pragmatics Learning?
Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Studies on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995–2022)
Author Index
Subject Index