The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics (The Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815349769 ISBN 13: 9780815349761

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades.

Demonstrating the ways in which pragmatics has long served as a lens through which to examine patterns of L2 development, the volume is divided into six parts which reflect the field’s structure and evolution:

• Constructs and units of analysis

• Theoretical approaches

• Methodological approaches

• Pedagogical approaches

• Contexts and individual considerations

• L2 pragmatics in the global era

The handbook has a particular focus on covering not only traditional topics in the field, such as constructs of pragmatic competence (e.g., speech acts, implicature), teaching and assessment, and pragmatics learning in a study abroad program, but also emerging areas of study, including interactional pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, usage-based approaches, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistic experimentation.

Each chapter introduces the topic and follows with a description of its theoretical underpinnings, an overview of existing literature, appraisal of current practice, concluding with a discussion of future directions for research and key readings.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and language teaching.

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About the Author

Naoko Taguchi is Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the co-editor of Journal of Applied Pragmatics and serves/has served on the editorial board for the Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching, Japanese SLA, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Education and International Education, and Studies of Chinese Language Teaching Journal. She is also a member of the Executive Board of AAAL. Her primary research area is L2 pragmatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815349769
• ISBN 13: 9780815349761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536
• Editor: Taguchi Naoko