The Pragmatics of Intercultural Communicative Competence

Language Use and Intercultural Understanding in Foreign Language and Study Abroad Contexts
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80041-435-8
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural understanding by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. Using data from role-play interactions, intercultural episodes and student reflections, including both US learners of Spanish and multilingual learners of other languages, the book examines how a focus on pragmatics and metapragmatic awareness aids the development of intercultural competence. It also addresses current topics such as intercultural impoliteness, the negotiation of and reflection on speech acts at the discourse level, pragmatic competence, agency and pragmatic resistance. The book concludes with a reflection on what it means to be an intercultural speaker along with suggestions for both teaching and assessment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Transcription Conventions

Introduction

Chapter 1. Intercultural Communicative Competence as Language Use: A Pragmatic Perspective

Chapter 2. Pragmatic Competence and Metapragmatic Awareness in Intercultural Understanding

Chapter 3. Pragmatic-Discursive Perspective on Language Use and Intercultural Understanding

Chapter 4. Pragmatic Learning and Intercultural Understanding in the Foreign Language Classroom

Chapter 5. Negotiating Refusals: Sociopragmatic Awareness and Insights from Study Abroad Learners

Chapter 6. Intercultural Impoliteness, Reflexive Awareness, and Agency in Study Abroad Contexts

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César
J. César Félix-Brasdefer is Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. His research focuses on intercultural pragmatics, pragmatic variation, second language pragmatics, and research methods in pragmatics. Among other publications, he is the author of The Language of Service Encounters: A Pragmatic-Discursive Approach (2015, Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics (with D. Koike, 2021, Routledge).