Speech Act Performance

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Preface; 4. Section I. Theoretical groundings; 5. Pragmatics and speech act performance (by Martinez-Flor, Alicia); 6. Section II. Empirical foundations; 7. The effect of individual-level variables on speech act performance (by Kuriscak, Lisa M.); 8. Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTs, role plays, and verbal reports (by Felix-Brasdefer, J. Cesar); 9. Conversation analysis and speech act performance (by Gonzalez-Lloret, Marta); 10. Culture and its effect on speech act performance (by Meier, Ardith J.); 11. Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance (by Schauer, Gila A.); 12. Speech act performance in workplace settings (by Yates, Lynda); 13. The effect of pragmatic instruction on speech act performance (by Takahashi, Satomi); 14. Section III. Methodological innovations; 15. Apologies: Raising learners' cross-cultural awareness (by Kondo, Sachiko); 16. Complaints: How to gripe and establish rapport (by Boxer, Diana); 17. Compliments and responses to compliments: Learning communication in context (by Ishihara, Noriko); 18. Disagreement: How to disagree agreeably (by Malamed, Lewis H.); 19. Refusals: How to develop appropriate refusal strategies (by Eslami, Zohreh R.); 20. Requests: A sociopragmatic approach (by Uso-Juan, Esther); 21. Suggestions: How social norms affect pragmatic behaviour (by Martinez-Flor, Alicia); 22. Index