The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a critical survey of L2 pragmatics, collecting 32 chapters that highlight the field's key theories, pedagogies, and research findings. This collection is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and applied linguistics.
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.
Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics fills a long-felt gap by providing such an intellectually provocative, theoretically robust, methodologically profound, and pedagogically applicable collection ... which offers plenty of food for thought for anyone interested in SLA and pragmatics.
Ali Derakhshan, Golestan University, in Applied Linguistics
