By reconceptualizing successful communication in a foreign language as an enjoyable and
uplifting experience, this volume moves beyond a focus on grammatical accuracy and …

This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and
transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can …

Aloitin tämän teoksen kirjoittamisen palattuani toiselta tutkijavierailulta Lyonista maaliskuun
puolivälissä 2020, kun paluu oli aikaistunut koronapandemian vuoksi. Koneen Säätiön …

This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language
communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance …

Emotions, the temporary affective expression of feelings (Arndt & Janney, 1987), play a key
role in relational work as interactants establish, construct, develop and maintain …

In this chapter, I analyse and discuss the answers that the language teachers gave in
questions 2 and 3 of the survey about intercultural competence and pragmatics; these two …

Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics represent two different approaches toward
understanding how nonnative speakers or learners of second languages construct and …

Writing logical arguments and providing factual evidence is a challenge for many students.
This study examines the argumentative essays written by Mustansiriyah University students …

An argumentative essay persuades the reader of a particular point of view by providing
factual facts and logical arguments. Argumentative essays focus heavily on hard evidence …

Based on Kecskés's (2014) intercultural pragmatics model, this study focuses on L2 teacher
and learner perceptions of how conventionalized impoliteness formulae and implicational …