LEADER 03560nam 22005895 450 001 9911031628403321 005 20251008131237.0 010 $a3-032-04323-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-04323-8 035 $a(CKB)41571617100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32333447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32333447 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-04323-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941571617100041 100 $a20251008d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgency and Pragmatic Independence in Foreign-language Communication $eCulture, Conformity and Critical Choices /$fby Gerrard Mugford 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (142 pages) 225 1 $aSocial Sciences Series 311 08$a3-032-04322-0 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Foreign-language agency languaculture & conformity -- Chapter 3 Pragmatic processing transpragmatics and investment -- Chapter 4 Future interactional control -- Chapter 5 Developing agency pragmatic processing and investment. 330 $aThis book promotes a teaching approach which builds on learner experience, assets and knowledge. By exploiting existing learner resources and knowledge of the world, the book identifies and stresses the need to draw upon first and additional-language/cultural resources and experiences by recognising that language users have choices regarding how they want to participate on interpersonal, interactional and transactional levels. In order to achieve successful (and overcome less successful) meaningful communication, the living experiences, histories and resources which language users bring to the additional-language context are honoured and serve as the basis of the teaching/learning approach. Rather than focusing on decontextualised language structures and on what learners might get wrong, the author argues that teachers should help learners develop a sense of agency and control, pragmatic processing ability and investment. This book will be of interest to ELT researchers, foreign language teachers, teacher trainers, researchers and postgraduate students in applied linguistics. Gerrard Mugford is a professor at the Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. His published research articles and chapters cover pragmatics, politeness and critical pedagogy. Recent publications include Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language: Possibilities for Integration and Critical Pedagogy (2024) and Critical Foreign Language Teaching (2025). 410 0$aSocial Sciences Series 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching 606 $aApplied linguistics 606 $aPragmatics 606 $aLanguage Teaching and Learning 606 $aLanguage Education 606 $aApplied Linguistics 606 $aPragmatics 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aApplied linguistics. 615 0$aPragmatics. 615 14$aLanguage Teaching and Learning. 615 24$aLanguage Education. 615 24$aApplied Linguistics. 615 24$aPragmatics. 676 $a418.0071 700 $aMugford$b Gerrard$01851192 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911031628403321 996 $aAgency and Pragmatic Independence in Foreign-Language Communication$94444833 997 $aUNINA