Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use: Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning

Troy McConachy

Published by Multilingual Matters 2017

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning

Troy McConachy

In the series Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099337

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About this book

Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use.

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McConachy Troy :

Troy McConachy is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include intercultural pragmatics and intercultural language teaching and learning.

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It has been a long time since I have read a book as important as this in the ‘jungle’ of language and intercultural education. Troy McConachy has done a great job in tying together the thorny issues of interculturality and language use. His approach is novel, bold and illuminating in a number of ways. No doubt this book will have a profound impact on the field!

In this timely book Troy McConachy offers a theoretically engaging and deeply insightful argument for developing in learners an ‘intercultural perspective on language use’. It highlights, through rich exemplification, the way in which even the most ordinary discussions in the foreign language learning classroom become an opportunity to explore, in reflective and analytic ways, the intricacies entailed in exchanging meanings in interaction across languages and cultures.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Pragmatics and Culture in Communicative Language Teaching Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2. Linking Pragmatics and Intercultural Language Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Developing a View of Language Use as Social Action Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Reflection on Experience as a Resource for Intercultural Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Combining Performance and Reflection for Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6. Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
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Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Intercultural perspective; Intercultural pragmatics; Culture; Foreign language learning; Foreign language teaching; Intercultural communication; Intercultural learning

eBook

Published: November 20, 2017
ISBN: 9781783099337