Unlocking the promise of pragmatics
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If the life of everyday language can be captured by any single domain of linguistic research, surely pragmatics must be among the top candidates for that honor. Casting its wide net around phenomena as diverse as intonational, morphological and syntactic variation with implications for social and interpersonal meanings, speech acts and their diverse realizations, discourses coherence and cohesion, epistemic and affective stance, identity, and more, pragmatics has expanded our understanding of almost every domain that has been studied in the interest of shedding light on the complex nature of human social contact. Yet even with this most impressive "resume", one must look carefully to find the footprint of pragmatics in the field of East Asian foreign language learning and teaching. It is indeed difficult to imagine any one area in this field – be it among works on FL classroom research or on FL instructional practice – that is so overlooked as pragmatics.
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