This book aims to reinvigorate the field of L2 pragmatics, describing the methods and most recent techniques by which pragmatics of all types can be pursued in L2 contexts. The authors argue that L2 pragmatics research needs to expand from its initial base by drawing from a wider range of sources, from Conversation Analysis to Corpus Linguistics.

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University. His publications include Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence (2011) and Pragmatics and the English Language (2014; with Michael Haugh). Until recently, he was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics.

Alison Mackey is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and Lancaster University. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. She is the co-editor of the Mildenberger prize-winning The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2012; with Susan M. Gass).

Naoko Taguchi is Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She has authored/co-authored several books, including Second Language Pragmatics (2017) and Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context (2015). She is the co-editor of a new journal, Applied Pragmatics.

1. Introduction to Second Language Pragmatics

2. Language production: The conceptual background

3. L2 pragmatic production: Data elicitation methods

4. Language comprehension and awareness: Conceptual background

5. Data Elicitation Methods in L2 Pragmatic Comprehension and Awareness

6. Interaction: Conceptual background

7. Data elicitation methods in L2 Pragmatic Interaction

8. Conclusions

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