Description
Book SynopsisThis book develops a corpus-based, constructional model of speech acts, and shows how it can be implemented in teaching practice. Its critical review of current illocutionary theories and the varied range of practical activities that it offers will be invaluable for both EFL professionals and students or researchers in linguistics.
Trade Review'The book … contributes substantially to L2 pragmatics research and teaching; and as such we highly recommend it to researchers, EFL teaching practitioners, and EFL textbook developers.' Qiuling Ou and Hang Su, Journal of Pragmatics
Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. What contemporary research tells us about speech acts; 3. Critical assessment of the representation of speech acts in advanced EFL textbooks; 4. A cognitive pedagogical grammar of directive speech acts I: know-what and know-how of directives; 5. A cognitive pedagogical grammar of directive speech acts II: activities and practice materials; 6. Conclusion.
