dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on
from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas …

Discourse in English Language Education introduces students to the major concepts and
questions in Discourse Studies and their applications to language education. Each chapter …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative
handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been …

Pragmatics deals with meaning in context that is the meaning conveyed often indirectly
beyond what is literally communicated. Ever since Hymes (1972, Sociolinguistics: Selected …

This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and
native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction regarding target language …

This chapter reviews the existing literature on the learning and teaching of (Im) politeness
among learners of second or more languages in different learning contexts, and provides a …

In this contribution, I focus on the concept of “appropriateness” in the usage, the learning
and the teaching of foreign languages. Using a participant-based emic perspective, I …

Understood as an umbrella term covering different phenomena (eg, banter, teasing, jocular
insults, etc.), mock impoliteness has long attracted the attention of scholars. However, most …

This article will discuss why cursing and swearing, as manifestations of emotional language,
should be addressed in foreign language learning (FLL). Psycholinguistic and pragmatic …

This study aims to describe the impoliteness of directive speech acts in online Indonesian
language learning. The data collection technique in this study used the observation, note …