none 10.1075/lllt.26.01mar John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67858994 1420435 1420417 202507030001000019 10.1075 2025-07-02T18:00:08Z 2014-03-23T18:39:34Z 15 1569-9471 10.1075/lllt https://benjamins.com/ catalog/lllt Alicia Martínez-Flor University Jaume I, Castelló https://ror.org/02ws1xc11 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-6872 Esther Usó-Juan University Jaume I, Castelló https://ror.org/02ws1xc11 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8926 Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues Speech acts are an important and integral part of day-to-day life in all languages. In language acquisition, the need to teach speech acts in a target language has been demonstrated in studies conducted in the field of interlanguage pragmatics which indicate that the performance of speech acts may differ considerably from culture to culture, thus creating communication difficulties in cross-cultural encounters. Considering these concerns, the aim of this volume is two-fold: to deal with those theoretical approaches that inform the process of learning speech acts in particular contextual and cultural settings; and, secondly, to present a variety of methodological proposals, grounded on research-based ideas, for the teaching of the major speech acts in second/foreign language classrooms. This volume is a valuable theoretical and practical resource not only for researchers, teachers and students interested in speech act learning/teaching but also for textbook writers wishing to have an informed opinion on the pedagogical implications derived from research on speech act performance. 26 2 10 2010 2 22 2010 9789027219893 9789027219909 9789027288363 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/lllt.26 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027288363 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027288363.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lllt.26/html Alicia Martínez-Flor Universitat Jaume I https://ror.org/02ws1xc11 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-6872 Esther Usó-Juan Universitat Jaume I https://ror.org/02ws1xc11 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4030-8926 Pragmatics, a branch of linguistics which studies communicative actions in their sociocultural context, has been the focus of attention of a number of scholars over the last few decades (Rose & Kasper, 2001). Given the importance of this area of research to develop competent users of a given language, the present chapter first outlines its main defining characteristics. Then, among the different subareas included within this field, a detailed description of speech act theory is provided. The reminder of the chapter addresses the theoretical conditions needed for the learning of particular speech acts in instructed settings, namely exposure to pertinent input, opportunities for communicative practice and feedback. 2 10 2010 2 22 2010 3 20 10.1075/lllt.26.01mar https://benjamins.com/catalog/lllt.26.01mar https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/lllt.26.01mar/html