Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues
Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor and Esther Usó-Juan
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 26] 2010. xiv, 277 pp.
Esther Usó-Juan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Usó-Juan plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching | Pragmatics
Articles
2021 Chapter 3. Long-term instructional effects on learners’ use of email request modifiers Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko (eds.), pp. 71–100 | Chapter
This study followed a pre-test/post-test/delayed post-test design to investigate the long-term impact of metapragmatic instruction on learners’ ability to modify email requests. Twenty-five Spanish university students with an upper-intermediate proficiency level in English participated in the… read more
2010 Pragmatics and speech act performance Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues, Martínez-Flor, Alicia and Esther Usó-Juan (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Article
Pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies communicative actions in their sociocultural context, has been the focus of attention of a number of scholars over the last few decades (Rose & Kasper, 2001). Given the importance of this area of research to develop competent users of a given… read more
2010 Requests: A sociopragmatic approach Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues, Martínez-Flor, Alicia and Esther Usó-Juan (eds.), pp. 237–256 | Article
This chapter focuses on the speech act of requesting, which has been considered to be a face-threatening act, since its performance requires the hearer to carry out an act for the requester’s sake (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Research on the use of requests suggests that many learners have problems in… read more