Speech Act Performance
Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
Published on 10. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-90-272-1990-9 (ISBN)
Description
Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of interlanguage pragmatics which indicate that the performance of speech acts may differ considerably from culture to culture, thus creating communication difficulties in cross-cultural encounters. Considering these concerns, the aim of this volume is two-fold: to deal with those theoretical approaches that inform the process of learning speech acts in particular contextual and cultural settings; and, secondly, to present a variety of methodological proposals, grounded on research-based ideas, for the teaching of the major speech acts in second/foreign language classrooms. This volume is a valuable theoretical and practical resource not only for researchers, teachers and students interested in speech act learning/teaching but also for textbook writers wishing to have an informed opinion on the pedagogical implications derived from research on speech act performance.
Reviews / Votes
This volume could be used as intended for educators of second and foreign languages, and it would be very valuable in graduate courses, as it bridges SLA and practical applications of the theory in the classroom. -- Susan Fiksdal, Evergreen State College, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 34(3): 508- 510, 2012More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1990-9 (9789027219909)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Preface; 4. Section I. Theoretical groundings; 5. Pragmatics and speech act performance (by Martinez-Flor, Alicia); 6. Section II. Empirical foundations; 7. The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance (by Kuriscak, Lisa M.); 8. Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTs, role plays, and verbal reports (by Felix-Brasdefer, J. Cesar); 9. Conversation analysis and speech act performance (by Gonzalez-Lloret, Marta); 10. Culture and its effect on speech act performance (by Meier, Ardith J.); 11. Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance (by Schauer, Gila A.); 12. Speech act performance in workplace settings (by Yates, Lynda); 13. The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance (by Takahashi, Satomi); 14. Section III. Methodological innovations; 15. Apologies: Raising learners' cross-cultural awareness (by Kondo, Sachiko); 16. Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport (by Boxer, Diana); 17. Compliments and responses to compliments: Learning communication in context (by Ishihara, Noriko); 18. Disagreement: How to disagree agreeably (by Malamed, Lewis H.); 19. Refusals: How to develop appropriate refusal strategies (by Eslami, Zohreh R.); 20. Requests: A sociopragmatic approach (by Uso-Juan, Esther); 21. Suggestions: How social norms affect pragmatic behaviour (by Martinez-Flor, Alicia); 22. Index