Pragmatic competence

Pragmatic competence / edited by Naoko Taguchi.

In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make inferenc...

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Other Authors: Taguchi, Naoko, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, ©2009.
Series:Mouton series in pragmatics ; 5.
Subjects:
Japanese language > Acquisition.
Japanese language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Pragmatics.
Communicative competence.
pragmatics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Japanese.
Communicative competence
Japanese language > Acquisition
Japanese language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
Pragmatics
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; (Instead of a) Foreword; Pragmatic competence in Japanese as a second language: An introduction; From a! to zo: Japanese pragmatics and its contribution to JSL/JFL pedagogy; Indexing stance in interaction with the Japanese desu/masu and plain forms; Advanced learners' honorific styles in emails and telephone calls; Subjectivity and pragmatic choice in L2 Japanese: Emulating and resisting pragmatic norms; Requesting in Japanese: The effect of instruction on JFL learners' pragmatic competence.

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