Assessing second language pragmatics /

Assessing second language pragmatics / Edited by Steven J. Ross, University of Maryland, USA and Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and quantitative and qualitative analyses. -- Amazon.com

9781137352132 (paperback)

2013022488


Pragmatics.
Second language acquisition.
Interlanguage (Language learning)
Language and culture--Study and teaching.
Speech acts (Linguistics).

P 99.4.P72 / .As74 2013