Developing Second Language Pragmatic Competence

A Cognitive Approach to Oral Interaction
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83668-026-0
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, Band 178, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Developing Second Language Pragmatic Competence

One of the few books in the field of applied linguistics to use pragmatics theory to support and implement pedagogical applications

This book investigates the most common challenges that learners of Japanese encounter in spoken interactions.

Through qualitative research with university students in Ireland, it highlights learners’ difficulties in navigating implicit meaning, sociocultural expectations and interactional norms. The author uses pragmatics theory to support and implement pedagogical applications to raise awareness in teaching environments of a wide range of indispensable communicative acts that learners need to use and interpret in real-life communication.

The book offers a fresh perspective, framing learners’ challenges through Relevance Theory, a cognitive approach to communication that has been underexplored in second language pragmatics research.

It will appeal to researchers in pragmatics, SLA, cognitive linguistics and Japanese pedagogy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marcet, Erika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Chapter 1. Pragmatic Competence

Chapter 2. Pragmatics of L2 Japanese

Chapter 3. Relevance Theory

PART 2 THE STUDY

Chapter 4. Method

Chapter 5. The Data

Chapter 6. The Challenges

PART 3. PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 7. Pragmatic Competence Revised

Chapter 8. Classroom Applications

Über Autor(innen)

Marcet, Erika
Erika Marcet is an Assistant Professor in Japanese and Head of the Japanese Section in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include Japanese language education, L2 pragmatics, teacher education and modern foreign language policy.