Assessing Second Language Pragmatics

by Steven Ross and Gabriele Kasper

Book Overview

This volume is the first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, the first section of the book examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of assessment methods and a range of quantitative and qualitative analyses. The second section investigates interviewer and candidate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137352132
• ISBN13: 9781137352132
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"