GENRES AND PRAGMATIC UNDERSTANDING

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This textbook provides a pragmatic perspective on second language development in an academic context. The first part lays down the foundations of a metapragmatic approach to utterance interpretation at discourse level in the L2. In the second and third parts the redefined constructs of pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are applied to the comparative analysis of a range of academic and newspaper/ magazine genres - for example, research article - editorial, research article title - newspaper headline, abstract - news report - and to the assessment of sample student answers indicating levels of pragmatic competence and language development. The glossary of linguistic terms introduces the tools of metapragmatic and metalinguistic analysis which draws on Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar respectively. The book includes numerous self-study exercises and commentaries. (from the publisher)

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Acknowledgements
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PART A
Theoretical underpinnings
1. Introduction
1.1. Rationale and aims
2. Pragmatic competence
2.1. Pragmatic ability
2.2. Pragmatic awareness
2.3. Pragmatic competence re-defined
3. Genres and pragmatic competence
4. Theoretical strands
4.1. Genre conventions and linguistic proficiency
4.2. Genre conventions and pragmatic competence
4.3. Linguistic proficiency: index of pragmatic competence
4.4. Pragmatic competence: index of linguistic proficiency
5. Coursework
PART B
Pragmatic awareness: applications
6. Pragmatic awareness re-defined: aims and objectives
7. Explicit instruction of pragmatic awareness
7.1. Coursework
7.1.1. Book blurb - Abstract
7.1.2. Newspaper headline - Research article title
7.2. Exam format
7.2.1. Abstract - News report
7.2.2. Research article - Magazine article
7.2.3. News report - Research article
PART C
Metapragmatic awareness: applications
8. Metapragmatic awareness re-defined: aims and objectives
9. Explicit instruction of metapragmatic awareness
9.1. Coursework
9.1.1. Table of contents - Outline
9.1.2. Summary - Academic review
9.1.2.1. Summary
9.1.2.2. Academic review
9.1.2.2.1. Literature review
9.2. Exam format
9.2.1. News report -Abstract
9.2.2. Editorial - Research article
PART D
Key terms: definition and examples
10. Glossary of linguistic terms
References
Name index