Researching Sociopragmatic Variability Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics

by Beeching, Kate; Woodfield, Helen

• ISBN13: 9781137373946
• ISBN10: 1137373946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches to the study of speech acts and pragmatic markers bringing together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmatic variability across a range of discourse contexts and cultures and through the prism of different research frameworks and methodologies, with a particular focus on the implementation of particular speech acts and the use of pragmatic markers.

Individual chapters focus on variation across different languages and varieties of a language, investigating native and non-native usages and how different language forms are used depending on the gender and age of the speaker, on the situation and on the person addressed. This book will be of great interest to researchers of sociopragmatic variability and L2 pedagogy as well as those involved in teaching a range of second languages.

Author Biography

Kate Beeching is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her publications include Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French and Pragmatic Markers in British English. She has also published a number of textbooks for the teaching of French.

Helen Woodfield is Senior Lecturer in TESOL/Applied Linguistics at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education, UK. Her publications include articles in Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, and Evaluation and Research in Education. She has also co-edited (with Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis) Interlanguage Request Modification.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Kate Beeching and Helen Woodfield
PART I: VARIATIONAL PRAGMATICS
2. Pragmalinguistic and Gender Variation in U.S. Café Service Encounters; Lisa N. Fink and J. César Félix-Brasdefer
3. The Role of Gender in Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Compliments; Chih-Ying Lin
4. Sociopragmatic Variation in Mainland and Taiwan Chinese Refusals; Wei Ren
5. Revisiting You Know Using the BNC WebQuery System: A Sociopragmatic Analysis; Qun Zheng
6. Compliment Responses Among Malaysian Multilinguals; Jennifer Quah Xiao Min
PART II: INTERLANGUAGE PRAGMATICS
7. Sociopragmatic Variation in Native Speakers' and ESL Learners' Requests; Helen Woodfield
8. Variability in Native and Non-native Use of Pragmatic Markers: The Example of Well in Role Play Data; Kate Beeching
PART III: CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS
9. Well – in an English-Swedish and English-French Contrastive Perspective; Karin Aijmer
10. Combining Self-report and Role-play Data in Sociopragmatics Research: Towards a Methodological Synthesis; María Jesus Barros García and Marina Terkourafi
PART IV: SOCIOPRAGMATIC COMPETENCE AND THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
11. Sociopragmatic Competence in FFL Language Teaching: Towards a Principled Approach to Teaching Discourse Markers in FFL; Juliette Delahaie
12. The Application of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Research Findings to the Teaching of Pragmatic Competence; Patricia Pullin