Pragmatics in Language Teaching

Pragmatics in Language Teaching examines the acquisition of language use in social contexts in second and foreign language classrooms. Included are 2 state-of-the-art survey chapters and 11 chapters reporting the results of empirical research. The empirical studies cover three areas: incidental acquisition of pragmatics in instructed contexts the effects of instruction in pragmatics and the assessment of pragmatics ability. The studies address a number of areas in pragmatics from speech acts and discourse markers to conversational routines and address terms and represent a range of target languages and contexts in the United States Asia and Europe.