Böcker av Rachel Shively

New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future.

The Language Play and Creativity series publishes monographs and edited collections on the topic of language play and linguistic creativity. It provides a forum for broad, interdisciplinary perspectives on questions including, but not limited to the role of, or relationship between, language play and first or second language development, formulaic vs. creative language use, memory and cognition, linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language change, identities, language education, and intercultural communication. The series welcomes work conducted from a variety of research perspectives in order to address cognitive, social, and applied issues involved in language play and linguistic creativity.