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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.
In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language
acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been
driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to
become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can
we examine pragmatic competence to make inference of its
development among L2 learners? In what ways do research findings
inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book
explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language.
The book has three sections. The first section offers a general
overview and historical sketch of the study of Japanese pragmatics
and its influence on Japanese pedagogy and curriculum. The overview
chapter is followed by eight empirical findings, each dealing with
phenomena that are significant in Japanese pragmatics. They target
selected features of Japanese pragmatics and investigate the
learners' use of them as an indicator of their pragmatic
competence. The target pragmatic features are wide-ranging, among
them honorifics, speech style, sentence final particles, speech
acts of various types, and indirect expressions. Each study
explicitly prompts the connection between pragmalinguistics
(linguistic forms available to perform language functions) and
sociopragmatics (norms that determine appropriate use of the forms)
in Japanese. By documenting the understanding and use of them among
learners of Japanese spanning multiple levels and time durations,
this book offers insight about the nature and development of
pragmatic competence, as well as implications for the learning and
teaching of Japanese pragmatics. The last section presents a
critical reflection on the eight empirical papers and prompts a
discussion of the practice of Japanese pragmatics research.
Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to
reinvigorate this field, pointing the way forward to new
methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new theoretical
developments. With a unique combination of leading international
expertise in general pragmatics, L2 pragmatics, and research
methodology, the authors describe in detail the methods, including
the most recent techniques, by which pragmatics of all types can be
pursued in L2 contexts. This volume argues that L2 pragmatics
research needs to expand from its initial base by drawing from a
wider range of sources, such as Corpus Linguistics and
Psycholinguistics. Clear, accessible, and practical, Second
Language Pragmatics will be valuable to novice and seasoned
researchers alike in second language pragmatics, general
pragmatics, and second language acquisition courses.
Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to
reinvigorate this field, pointing the way forward to new
methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new theoretical
developments. With a unique combination of leading international
expertise in general pragmatics, L2 pragmatics, and research
methodology, the authors describe in detail the methods, including
the most recent techniques, by which pragmatics of all types can be
pursued in L2 contexts. This volume argues that L2 pragmatics
research needs to expand from its initial base by drawing from a
wider range of sources, such as Corpus Linguistics and
Psycholinguistics. Clear, accessible, and practical, Second
Language Pragmatics will be valuable to novice and seasoned
researchers alike in second language pragmatics, general
pragmatics, and second language acquisition courses.
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.
In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to
interact effectively is critical. But what does it mean to be
interactively competent? This book addresses this question by
presenting research on the development of interactional competence
among learners of Japanese as a second language. Qualitative data
collected on learners studying abroad in Japan is evaluated to
explain changes in their interactional competence and provides
specific insights into the learning of Japanese. The situated
analysis of multiple data sets generates meaningful interpretations
of the development of interactional competence in the development
of interactional competence and the learner-specific factors that
shape developmental trajectories. Moreover, the context of the
research provides insights into the types of learning resources and
experiences that study abroad provides to assist learners' in their
progress towards becoming a competent speaker in the target
community.
Taguchi and Roever present the latest developments in second
language pragmatics research, combining acquisitional and
sociolinguistic perspectives. They cover theories of pragmatics
learning and research methods in investigating pragmatics, linking
these with findings on the acquisition of second language
pragmatics and with practice in teaching and assessing pragmatics.
Discussing pragmatics in the context of multilingual societies and
diverse contexts of use, they offer a broad perspective on this
growing area.
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