Virginia Locastro

Pragmatics for Language Educators

A Sociolinguistic Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text makes pragmatics accessible to a wide range of language professionals through explanations of topics and concepts that are often difficult for uninitiated readers, a wealth of examples, and attention to the needs of readers who are non-native English speakers.- Arnulfo G. Ramirez, The Modern Language Journal

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801164
• ISBN-10: 0415801168
• Artikelnr.: 33764073

Autorenporträt

Virginia LoCastro has worked in the United States, Canada, Japan, Slovakia, and Mexico as a teacher and researcher in the fields of sociolinguistics and language education, most recently as Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Academic Spoken English and Academic Written English Programs, University of Florida, and has published widely on ESL/EFL pedagogy and teacher development.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of transcription conventions
I. What is pragmatics?
1. Defining the territory
2. Principles of pragmatic meaning
3. Sociolinguistic theories of pragmatic meaning
II. Core areas of pragmatics
4. Cross-cultural pragmatics
5. Interlanguage pragmatics
6. Politeness
7. Interactional construction of identity
8. Institutional Talk
9. Language, gender, and power
10. Classroom pragmatic development
III. Research in sociopragmatics
11. Guidelines for small sociopragmatics projects
12. Ideas for research projects in socipragmatics
IV. Conclusion
13. Pragmatic competence in our diverse world