In:Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 26] 2010
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 10 February 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.26.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
List of contributors
Preface
Section I. Theoretical groundings
Pragmatics and speech act performance
Section II. Empirical foundations
The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance
Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTs, role plays, and verbal reports
Conversation analysis and speech act performance
Culture and its effect on speech act performance
Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance
Speech act performance in workplace settings
The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance
Section III. Methodological innovations
Apologies: Raising learners’ cross-cultural awareness
Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport
Compliments and responses to compliments: Learning communication in context
Disagreement: How to disagree agreeably
Refusals: How to develop appropriate refusal strategies
Requests: A sociopragmatic approach
Suggestions: How social norms affect pragmatic behaviour
Index
