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In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in
multilingualism and its relationship with the learning and teaching
of second/foreign languages. However, multilingualism is a highly
complex phenomenon, which has a direct influence on how we learn
languages. For instance, do we learn a second/foreign language in a
similar way in a multilingual context as in a monolingual one? What
is the role of the other languages spoken in the community? Do
contrasting learning contexts, like CLIL or studying abroad,
produce different results? Can positive emotions such as foreign
language enjoyment have an active role in the foreign language
learning process? These and other topics will be discussed in this
book, with the aim of understanding multilingualism, how languages
are learned and how to teach them better. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the International Journal of
Multilingualism.
Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in
pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered
universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is
this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent
developments in pragmatics, and it is also the focus of this book.
The aim of this book is to reflect this development, providing
evidence from four main areas crucial to pragmatics across
languages and cultures: a description of a variety of speech acts
and politeness strategies in different languages and cultures, a
cross-cultural comparison of several speech acts and patterns of
politeness, an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the learning
and teaching of speech acts and politeness in second/foreign
languages, as well as some methodological resources in pragmatics.
This book is intended for researchers, scholars and students
interested in the field of pragmatics, in general, or in the fields
of cross-cultural and second/foreign language pragmatics, and
specifically for those interested in speech acts and politeness. It
will also be useful to any scholar interested in how communication
and culture are related.
In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in
multilingualism and its relationship with the learning and teaching
of second/foreign languages. However, multilingualism is a highly
complex phenomenon, which has a direct influence on how we learn
languages. For instance, do we learn a second/foreign language in a
similar way in a multilingual context as in a monolingual one? What
is the role of the other languages spoken in the community? Do
contrasting learning contexts, like CLIL or studying abroad,
produce different results? Can positive emotions such as foreign
language enjoyment have an active role in the foreign language
learning process? These and other topics will be discussed in this
book, with the aim of understanding multilingualism, how languages
are learned and how to teach them better. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the International Journal of
Multilingualism.
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