Second Language Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Wei Ren

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 88
• Series: Elements in Applied Linguistics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Element introduces the areas that second language (L2) pragmatics research has investigated. It begins with a theme-based review of the field with respect to L2 pragmatics learning, teaching, and assessing. The section on pragmatics learning examines studies on learners' pragmatic production and perception, and analyzes research modalities in this field. The section on pragmatics teaching examines the effects of and different approaches to L2 pragmatics instruction; and the section on pragmatics assessing examines the aspects involved in testing learners' pragmatic competence, and studies on issues related to validity and rating in pragmatics assessing. The Element then analyzes studies exploring learners' cognitive processes during pragmatic performance, and case studies are provided to showcase two ongoing projects, one investigating advanced learners' self-praise on social media and the other investigating lingua franca pragmatics among children. Finally, the Element offers some topics and questions for future research in L2 pragmatics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Second Language Pragmatics
Contents
1 Second Language Pragmatics: An Introduction
2 Second Language Pragmatics Learning
2.1 Pragmatic Production
2.1.1 Speech Acts
2.1.2 Conventional Expressions
2.1.3 Address Terms
2.1.4 Pragmatic Markers
2.1.5 Conversation Management
2.1.6 Prosody
2.1.7 Concluding Remarks
2.2 Pragmatic Perception
2.2.1 Pragmatic Awareness
Appropriateness of Speech Acts
Conventional Expressions
Address Terms
2.2.2 Pragmatic Comprehension
Comprehension of Conversation Implicature
Comprehension of Scalar Implicature
Comprehension of Irony
Comprehension of Humor
Comprehension of Contextual Cues
2.2.3 Concluding Remarks
2.3 Research Modality
2.4 Summary
3 Second Language Pragmatics Teaching
3.1 Effects of Teaching Second Language Pragmatics
3.2 Approaches in Second Language Pragmatics Teaching
3.2.1 Input Flood
3.2.2 Textual Enhancement
3.2.3 Consciousness-raising
3.2.4 Output-based Teaching
3.2.5 Task-based Pragmatics Teaching
3.2.6 Explicit Teaching
3.3 Summary
4 Second Language Pragmatics Assessment
4.1 Pragmatic Aspects Assessed
4.2 Validity
4.3 Rating
4.4 Summary
5 Cognitive Processes
5.1 Instruments to Measure Cognitive Processes in Pragmatics
5.2 Pragmatic Aspects Examined with Cognitive Processes
5.3 Verbal Report Data Examined
5.4 Procedures of Verbal Report
5.5 Summary
6 Case Studies
6.1 Case Study 1: Second Language Self-praise on Social Media
Participants and Data
Data Analysis
Results
6.2 Case Study 2: Lingua Franca Pragmatics
Participants and Data
Data Analysis
Results
7 Advancing Second Language Pragmatics
References