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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Authors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Preface xi
6. Part 1 Background
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Tests of L2 Pragmatics: What Do They Assess? 3
9. Part 2 The Development of the Tests
10. Introduction 23
11. 2 Introducing the Project: The Test Battery 29
12. 3 The Metapragmatic Knowledge Test: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Japanese Learners 51
13. 4 Evaluating the Social Variables Test 75
14. 5 The Irony Test: A Study of Chinese Learners’ Ability to Comprehend Irony 96
15. 6 The Elicited Imitation Test: An Exploratory Study of L2 Learners’ Knowledge of Hedging 116
16. 7 The Monologic Role Play: A Genre-Based Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability 135
17. 8 The Dialogic Role Play: A Discourse-Analytic Approach to Measuring Pragmatic Ability 167
18. 9 Assessing Implicit and Explicit Pragmatic Competence: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis 192
19. Part 3 Mediating Factors
20. Introduction 213
21. 10 Proficiency as an Individual Difference Variable 215
22. 11 The Roles of Language Proficiency and Study Abroad in Japanese Students’ Receptive Pragmatic Competence 230
23. 12 The Effect of Digital Explicit-Deductive Instruction on the Development of Explicit and Implicit Pragmatic Abilities 248
24. Part 4 Conclusion
25. Introduction 265
26. 13 Retrospect and Prospect 267
27. Appendices 286
28. References 304
29. Index 317