Teaching Pragmatics

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
Rebecca Mahan-Taylor

Editors

Teaching Pragmatics is a collection of 30 lessons that can help English learners use socially appropriate language in a variety of informal and formal situations.

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Awareness
  Introduction to this section
  In the Mood: Introducing Pragmatic Awareness at Low Levels, Edit H. Kontra
  Politeness is More than “Please”, Anne M. Howard
  Speakers and Task Type: Increasing Awareness of Factors in Speech Act Production, Sigrun Biesenbach-Lucas
  Greetings with a Difference, Ann Burke and Julie O’Sullivan
  Spot the Problem!, Melinda Edwards
  Appropriateness in Terms of Address, Miyuki Takenoya
  The Texas Airport Cookies: Pragmatic Variation from an Urban Legend, Faridah Pawan and Daniel J. Reed
Conversational Management
  Introduction to this section
  Promoting Solidarity in Short Interactions, Janet M. D. Higgins
  Discourse Markers “Well” and “Oh”, Kent Lee
  Comment-Response Mingle, Lynda Yates
  “That’s Wrong!” Improving the Friendly Discussions of Controversial Issues, Lewis Malamed
  “Actually, the Deadline was Friday of Last Week, Not This Week...” Polite Ways of Correcting or Contradicting, Olga Barsony
  Making Contrasts in English, Ann Wennerstrom
  Listen Actively! You Can Keep that Conversation Going!, Sara Gallow
  Are You Listening? (Backchannel Behaviors), Anne Berry
  Talking on a Second Channel Using Parentheticals, Wayne B. Dickerson
Conversational Openings and Closings
  Introduction to this section
  Hello! I Must Be Going!, Jennifer M. Herrin
  How Are You, Auntie Elizabeth?, Melinda Edwards
  How Do You Say Goodbye?, Olga Griswold
  Telephone Conversation Openings, Jean Wong
Requests
  Introduction to this section
  “Get to the Point, Will You Please?” Requesting the Main Point in the Classroom, Yi Yuan
  E-Mail Requests, Thomas Mach and Shelly Ridder
  What Do You Think? Requesting Responses from Professors, Donald L. Weasenforth
  The Pragmatics Action Maze, Thomas Salsbury
  Softening Short Requests, Lynda Yates
Assorted Speech Acts
  Introduction to this section
  “Leave a Speech Act after the Beep”: Using the Telephone to Teach Pragmatics, Douglas Demo
  The Rules of the Queue, Jane E. Hardy
  Complaining Successfully: Negotiating Redress in Service Encounters, Dudley Reynolds
  Giving and Responding to Compliments, Noriko Ishihara
  Teaching Refusals in an EFL Setting, Sachiko Kondo
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