Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics</em> 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.</p><p>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:</p><p>• Constructs and units of analysis</p><p>• Theoretical approaches</p><p>• Methodological approaches</p><p>• Pedagogical approaches</p><p>• Contexts and individual considerations</p><p>• L2 pragmatics in the global era</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics</em> is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition pragmatics and language teaching.</p>