Synopsis
                  This volume presents a wide ranging overview of key theoretical and practical issues, empirical research and various analyses of pragmatic phenomena that will certainly be most useful and helpful to students and researchers in pragmatics and other linguistic disciplines and, of course, to L2 teachers. It is divided into five parts that include chapters addressing cognitive issues on L2 teaching, how and what to teach when dealing with specific speech acts, intercultural aspects of communication, the teaching of languages for academic and specific purposes and some other methodological issues on pragmatics teaching.
                                                  
                                            About the Author
                                      
                  Reyes Gomez Moron is a Lecturer at the Department of Philology and Translation (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. She currently co-ordinates the research group. Her research interests and publications focus on pragmatics and teaching both English and Spanish as second languages, sociopragmatics (politeness theory), cross-cultural pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Manuel Padilla Cruz is currently a Lecturer at the Department of English Language (University of Seville). He holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. His research interests and publications deal mainly with cognitive and social pragmatics (relevance theory and politeness theory, respectively). He has also made research in historical, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics. Lucia Fernandez Amaya is a Lecturer at the Department of Philology and Translation (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville). She holds a PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Seville. Her research interests and publications focus on pragmatics and translation, sociopragmatics (politeness theory), interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and teaching pragmatics to ESL learners. Maria de la O Hernandez Lopez is a Lecturer at the Department of Philology and Translation (Pablo de Olavide University, Seville). She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of London and is about to finish her PhD dissertation in Cross-cultural Pragmatics. Her research interests and publications focus on pragmatics, intercultural communication and international negotiation in institutional settings.
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