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35 - Second Language Pragmatics

from Part III - Approaches and Methods in Sociopragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2021

By
Elly Ifantidou
Edited by
Michael Haugh ,
Dániel Z. Kádár  and
Marina Terkourafi
Michael Haugh
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Dániel Z. Kádár
Affiliation:
Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Marina Terkourafi
Affiliation:
Leiden University
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Summary

Starting from its early conception as a pragmalinguistic/sociopragmatic model of non-native users’ pragmatic development in L2, this chapter suggests a novel approach to second language pragmatics, and to sociopragmatics in particular. The proposed view encompasses inferential mechanisms and effects which are intrinsic in real-life verbal and non-verbal communication but have been left largely untouched. Following a historical review of sociopragmatic competence in terms of ‘interlanguage pragmatics’ and ‘intercultural communicative competence’, I focus on pragmatic inference within second language pragmatics as it becomes manifest in figurative speech. Emphasis lies on recent available evidence in support of the impact of metaphor comprehension on second language pragmatic development.

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applied pragmaticsinterlanguage pragmaticsL2 pragmaticssociopragmatic competenceinferencefigurative speech
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics , pp. 758 - 779
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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