Pragmatic Competence and Relevance: 245 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Ifantidou, Elly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027256500 ISBN 13: 9789027256508

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014

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This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by distinct criteria and validated testing measures. More importantly, genuine pragmatic inference is elicited in contexts of online interpretation where figurative speech plays a central role. Genre-specific discourse which occurs in editorials and news reports serves as a natural testbed for examining the role of advanced mind-reading abilities in developing pragmatic competence. Sperber and Wilson’s relevance theory accommodates the findings of empirical assessment and yields new insights in the cognitive procedures activated during interpretation. The comprehensive theoretical and methodological treatment of pragmatic competence makes this book of interest to researchers and students in pragmatics, L2 theory and applications, genre studies, and to those concerned with the cognitive underpinnings of communication in L2.

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• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9027256500
• ISBN 13: 9789027256508
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238