Discourse Politeness Theory and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Message from the President 1
4. Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) 3
5. Preface 11
6. Part I. Teaching Perspective
7. Discourse Politeness Theory and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics 19
8. Teaching Conversational Storytelling Skills to Japanese Students of English 43
9. Integration of Theory and Practice in Grammar Teaching 59
10. A Computerized Test of Oral Proficiency 75
11. How Much Do We Have in Common with the Common European Framework of Reference? 83
12. An Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Language Teacher Expertise 101
13. Part II. Learning Perspective
14. Learning to Reframe 119
15. The Zone of Proximal Development and Second Language Acquisition 155
16. Manual Introduction of Animate Referents in L2 Narrative Discourse 179
17. The Use of Phrasal Verbs by Japanese Learners of English 201
18. Learning a Second Language through Audiovisual Media 227
19. Network-Based Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 247
20. Index of Proper Nouns 263
21. Index of Subjects 267
22. Contributors 273