Lorena Perez-Hernandez

Speech Acts in English

From Research to Instruction and Textbook Development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book develops a corpus-based, constructional model of speech acts, and shows how it can be implemented in teaching practice. Its critical review of current illocutionary theories and the varied range of practical activities that it offers will be invaluable for both EFL professionals and students or researchers in linguistics.

Produktdetails

• Studies in English Language
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781108700207
• ISBN-10: 1108700209
• Artikelnr.: 67116792

Autorenporträt

Lorena Pérez-Hernández is a Tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Rioja. Recent publications include Illocution and Cognition (2001). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Cognitive Linguistics, the Human Cognitive Processing Series, and the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics and Discourse Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. What contemporary research tells us about speech acts
3. Critical assessment of the representation of speech acts in advanced EFL textbooks
4. A cognitive pedagogical grammar of directive speech acts I: know-what and know-how of directives
5. A cognitive pedagogical grammar of directive speech acts II: activities and practice materials
6. Conclusion.