PubData Leuphana Repository: Pragmatic Competence in EIL

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Resource type	Book Chapter
Title(s)	Pragmatic Competence in EIL
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-160
Handle	20.500.14123/181
Creator	Barron, Anne 0000-0003-2962-7985 (Institute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg 02w2y2t16)
Abstract	English as an International Language (EIL) scholarship accepts and values the plurality of English and rejects the idea of a single variety of English. In many school contexts today, however, there is little trace of EIL research. Rather, there, standard British English or American English rules, and any discussion of language variation is brief and focused on the orthographical, lexical, and phonological levels. Pragmatic variation across regional varieties (e.g., pluricentric languages, sub-regional variation) is not considered; neither is pragmatic variation across social factors (e.g., age, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnic identity). The present book chapter draws on recent research from Variational Pragmatics and World Englishes focusing on regional and social pragmatic variation across the Englishes to demonstrate the ubiquity of such pragmatic variation across varieties. An empirical study focusing on pragmatic variation in responses to expressing thanks in the varieties of Canadian English and English illustrates the nature of regional and social pragmatic variation. On this basis, the paper examines the place of pragmatic variation in current conceptualizations of pragmatic competence and explores the implications of the existence of regional and social pragmatic variation for conceptualizations of pragmatic competence and for the teaching of pragmatic competence in the EIL language classroom.
Language	English
Year of publication in PubData	2024
Publishing type	Parallel publication
Publication version	Accepted version
Date issued	2020-12-11
Creation context	Research
Published by	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Field	Value
Resource type	Book
Title of the resource type	Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language
Identifier	DOI: 10.4324/9781003097303-2
Publication year	2021
Pages	19 - 43
Publisher	Routledge
Place of publication	London