Pragmatics in Language Teaching

Kenneth R. Rose, Gabriele Kasper

Cambridge University Press, Oct 15, 2001 - Foreign Language Study - 368 pages

Pragmatics in Language Teaching examines the acquisition of language use in social contexts in second and foreign language classrooms. Included are 2 state-of-the-art survey chapters, and 11 chapters reporting the results of empirical research. The empirical studies cover three areas: incidental acquisition of pragmatics in instructed contexts, the effects of instruction in pragmatics, and the assessment of pragmatics ability. The studies address a number of areas in pragmatics, from speech acts and discourse markers to conversational routines and address terms, and represent a range of target languages and contexts in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pragmatics in Language Teaching; Cambridge Applied Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Editors: Kenneth R. Rose, Gabriele Kasper
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0521803799, 9780521803793
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching