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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825123903321

Titolo

Speech act performance : theoretical, empirical and methodological issues / / edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Esther Usó-Juan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010

ISBN

1-282-55858-7

9786612558580

90-272-8836-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 277 p

Collana

Language learning & language teaching, , 1569-9471 ; ; v. 26

Altri autori (Persone)

Martínez FlorAlicia

Usó JuanEsther

Disciplina

401/.452

Soggetti

Speech acts (Linguistics)

Speech

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Section I. Theoretical groundings: Pragmatics and speech act performance / Alicia Martínez-Flor & Esther Usó-Juan -- Section II. Empirical foundations: The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance / Lisa M. Kuriscak -- Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTS, role plays, and verbal reports / J. César Félix-Brasdefer -- Conversation analysis and speech act performance / Marta González-Lloret -- Culture and its effect on speech act performance / Ardith J. Meier -- Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance / Gila A. Schauer -- Speech act performance in workplace settings / Lynda Yates -- The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance / Satomi Takahashi -- Section III. Methodological innovations: Apologies: raising learners' cross-cultural awareness / Sachiko Kondo -- Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport / Diana Boxer -- Compliments and responses to compliments: learning communication in context / Noriko Ishihara -- Disagreement: how to disagree agreeably / Lewis H. Malamed -- Refusals: how to develop appropriate refusal strategies / Zohreh R. Eslami -- Requests: a sociopragmatic approach / Esther Usó-Juan -- Suggestions: how social norms affect pragmatic behaviour / Alicia



Martínez-Flor.

Sommario/riassunto

Suggestions are acts in which the speaker asks the hearer to perform an action that will potentially benefit the hearer (Rintell, 1979). Despite this fact, they have been regarded as face-threatening acts, since the speaker is in some way intruding into the hearer's world by performing an act that concerns what the latter should do (Brown & Levinson, 1987). For this reason, formulating pragmatically appropriate suggestions that do not result in impolite or rude behaviour may be especially difficult for second language learners whose contact with the target language is very limited. With that aim in mind, and based on previous studies on this speech act, this chapter proposes a pedagogical approach that ranges from awareness-raising to production activities.