EAN: 9783110218541

PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE GEBUNDEN

In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA)  the study of
pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to
become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic
competence to make inference of its development among L2 learners? In what ways do research
findings inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book explores these key
issues in Japanese as a second foreign language. The book has three sections. The first section
offers a general overview and historical sketch of the study of Japanese pragmatics and its
influence on Japanese pedagogy and curriculum. The overview chapter is followed by eight
empirical findings  each dealing with phenomena that are significant in Japanese pragmatics.
They target selected features of Japanese pragmatics and investigate the learners' use of them
as an indicator of their pragmatic competence. The target pragmatic features are wide-ranging 
among them honorifics  speech style  sentence final particles  speech acts of various types 
and indirect expressions. Each study explicitly prompts the connection between
pragmalinguistics (linguistic forms available to perform language functions) and
sociopragmatics (norms that determine appropriate use of the forms) in Japanese. By documenting
the understanding and use of them among learners of Japanese spanning multiple levels and time
durations  this book offers insight about the nature and development of pragmatic competence 
as well as implications for the learning and teaching of Japanese pragmatics. The last section
presents a critical reflection on the eight empirical papers and prompts a discussion of the
practice of Japanese pragmatics research.

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