Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction xiii
6. 1 Research on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995–2022): A State-of-the-Art Review 1
7. Part 1 Acquisition of Key Pragmatic Features
8. 2 ‘Softening the Tone?’: A Corpus-Based Study of the Utterance-Final Pragmatic Particle BA (吧) between L1 and L2 Chinese Speakers 39
9. 3 L2 Chinese Internet Slang Learning: Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners’ Knowledge and Motivation 69
10. 4 Effects of Proficiency and Situation Type on the Production of L2 Chinese Request Strategies by Japanese Learners 91
11. Part 2 Methodological Innovations for Pragmatics Assessment
12. 5 Using a Slide Ruler to Assess Accuracy and Certainty in L2 Chinese Implicature Comprehension 123
13. 6 An Exploratory Study on a Natural Language Processing Approach to Evaluating L2 Pragmatic Performance 143
14. 7 Using the Rasch Model to Evaluate Instrument and Data Quality in Assessing Requests in L2 Chinese 161
15. Part 3 Individual Difference Factors in Pragmatics Acquisition
16. 8 Proficiency, Motivation and Production of Conventional Expressions in L2 Chinese 187
17. 9 Learning Strategies for Pragmatic Routines by Learners of L2 Chinese 211
18. Part 4 Web-Based Approaches to Teaching and Learning Pragmatics
19. 10 Effects of Website- Delivered Instruction on Development of Pragmatic Awareness in L2 Chinese 237
20. 11 Is a Game More Appealing than an Online Lesson for L2 Pragmatics Learning? 257
21. Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Studies on L2 Chinese Pragmatics (1995–2022) 282
22. Author Index 348
23. Subject Index 353