The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics: (The Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition)

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades. Demonstrating the ways in which pragmatics has long served as a lens through which to examine patterns of L2 development, the volume is divided into six parts which reflect the field’s structure and evolution: • Constructs and units of analysis • Theoretical approaches • Methodological approaches • Pedagogical approaches • Contexts and individual considerations • L2 pragmatics in the global era The handbook has a particular focus on covering not only traditional topics in the field, such as constructs of pragmatic competence (e.g., speech acts, implicature), teaching and assessment, and pragmatics learning in a study abroad program, but also emerging areas of study, including interactional pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, usage-based approaches, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistic experimentation. Each chapter introduces the topic and follows with a description of its theoretical underpinnings, an overview of existing literature, appraisal of current practice, concluding with a discussion of future directions for research and key readings. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is an essential resource for those with an interest in second language acquisition, pragmatics, and language teaching.

Table of Contents:
The Routledge Handbook of SLA and PragmaticsEditor: Naoko TaguchiTable of Content Chapter 1 SLA and pragmatics: An overviewNaoko TaguchiSECTION 1: CONSTRUCTS AND UNITS OF ANALYSISChapter 2 Speech acts in interaction: Negotiating joint action in a second language J. César Félix-BrasdeferChapter 3 Iimplicature comprehension in L2 pragmatics researchNaoko Taguchi and Shota YamaguchiChapter 4 Routines in L2 pragmatics researchKathleen Bardovi-HarligChapter 5 Humor in L2 pragmatics researchNancy Bell and Anne PomerantzChapter 6 Prosody in L2 pragmatics researchOkim Kang and Alyssa KermadChapter 7 Interactional competence and L2 pragmaticsRichard F. YoungSECTION 2: THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 8 Cognitive approaches in L2 pragmatics researchShuai LiChapter 9 Language socialization and L2 pragmaticsWenhao Diao and Joy MaaChapter 10 Vygotskian cultural-historical psychology in L2 pragmatics Rémi A. van Compernolle Chapter 11 Identity and agency in L2 pragmaticsNoriko Ishihara Chapter 12 Interactional usage-based L2 pragmatics: From form-meaning pairings to construction-action relations Søren Wind Eskildsen and Gabriele KasperSECTION 3: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHESChapter 13 Data collection methods in L2 pragmatics research: An overviewThi Thuy Minh NguyenChapter 14 Mixed methods in L2 pragmatics research Steven J. Ross and Yoon Jee HongChapter 15 Conversation analysis in L2 pragmatics researchJunko Mori and Hanh thi NguyenChapter 16 Corpus linguistics approach to L2 pragmatics researchShelley Staples and Julieta FernándezChapter 17 Systemic functional linguistics and L2 pragmaticsMarianna Ryshina-PankovaChapter 18 Psycholinguistic approaches to L2 pragmatics researchThomas Holtgraves, Gyeongnam Kwon, and Tania Morales ZelayaSECTION 4: PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHESChapter 19 A meta-analysis of L2 pragmatics instructionLuke Plonsky and Jingyuan ZhuangChapter 20 Assessment in L2 pragmaticsSoo Jung Youn and Valeria Bogorevich Chapter 21 Instructional material development in L2 pragmaticsDonna Tatsuki,Chapter 22 Task-Based Language Teaching and L2 PragmaticsMarta González-LloretSECTION 5: CONTEXTUAL AND INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATIONSChapter 23 L2 pragmatic development in study abroad settings Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Rachel ShivelyChapter 24 L2 pragmatics learning in computer-mediated communication D. Joseph Cunningham Chapter 25 Pragmatics learning in digital games and virtual environmentsJulie M. Sykes and Sebastien DubreilChapter 26 Pragmatics in a language classroomYumiko TateyamaChapter 27 Pragmatics learning in the workplaceVeronika Timpe-LaughlinChapter 28 Individual learner considerations in SLA and L2 pragmaticsSatomi TakahashiSECTION 6: L2 PRAGMATICS IN THE GLOBAL ERAChapter 29 Norms and variation in L2 pragmaticsAnne BarronChapter 30 Heritage learner pragmaticsYang Xiao-DesaiChapter 31 Intercultural competence and L2 pragmaticsJane JacksonChapter 32 Multilingual pragmatics: Implicature comprehension in adult L2 learners and multilingual childrenKyriakos Antoniou

About the Author :
Naoko Taguchi is Professor in the Modern Languages Department at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the co-editor of Journal of Applied Pragmatics and serves/has served on the editorial board for the Modern Language Journal, Language Teaching, Japanese SLA, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Education and International Education, and Studies of Chinese Language Teaching Journal. She is also a member of the Executive Board of AAAL. Her primary research area is L2 pragmatics.

Review :
"The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics fills a long-felt gap by providing such an intellectually provocative, theoretically robust, methodologically profound, and pedagogically applicable collection ... which offers plenty of food for thought for anyone interested in SLA and pragmatics." Ali Derakhshan, Golestan University, in Applied Linguistics "By exploring questions of great nuance, it represents a major contribution to our understanding of L2 pragmatics. [… T]his wide-ranging volume provides a highly accessible entry point to the long-standing relationship between pragmatics and SLA. […] Although the new millennium has witnessed a proliferation of L2 pragmatics research and teaching informed by SLA theories, this field is still dominated by European and North American voices. […] It is gratifying to note that this volume includes the many voices of Asian scholars whose work on the shifting conceptions of intercultural pragmatics contributes uniquely to some of the basic questions in L2 pragmatic acquisition and development research, namely, what is learned, how it is learned, and particularly why something is learned or not learned. […] Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions have sought to demonstrate why pragmatics is a profitable arena for SLA research and how SLA provides theoretical frameworks and empirical methods to address the constructs and changes within pragmatic systems. [… T]he contributions in this volume have managed to balance input-based and output-based approaches, awareness and assessment issues, grammatical and prosodic choices, and well-established and newly-emerging domains." Xin Li, Shanghai International Studies University, in Journal of Linguistics