Speech act performance
Subtitle: theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
By: edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Esther Usó-Juan
Contributors: Usó Juan, Esther
Series: Language learning & language teaching -- v. 26; Language learning and language teaching -- v. 26.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9789027219893; 9789027219909; 9789027288363
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I. Theoretical groundings: Pragmatics and speech act performance / Alicia Martínez-Flor & Esther Usó-Juan; title: Section II. Empirical foundations: The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance / Lisa M. Kuriscak; title: Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTS, role plays, and verbal reports / J. César Félix-Brasdefer; title: Conversation analysis and speech act performance / Marta González-Lloret; title: Culture and its effect on speech act performance / Ardith J. Meier; title: Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance / Gila A. Schauer; title: Speech act performance in workplace settings / Lynda Yates; title: The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance / Satomi Takahashi; title: Section III. Methodological innovations: Apologies: raising learners' cross-cultural awareness / Sachiko Kondo; title: Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport / Diana Boxer; title: Compliments and responses to compliments: learning communication in context / Noriko Ishihara; title: Disagreement: how to disagree agreeably / Lewis H. Malamed; title: Refusals: how to develop appropriate refusal strategies / Zohreh R. Eslami; title: Requests: a sociopragmatic approach / Esther Usó-Juan; title: Suggestions: how social norms affect pragmatic behaviour / Alicia Martínez-Flor.