Interpersonal pragmatics: Issues and debates

Issues in Acquisitional Pragmatics

This paper aims at a comprehensive review of the growing body of research in L2 pragmatic acquisition, including both theoretical discussions and empirical studies to date. To this end, the paper deals with a number of issues which are grouped into four broad categories: the essential constituents of pragmatic competence, models of pragmatic development, major processes of pragmatic competence,...

Developmental Issues in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Unlike other areas of second language study, which are primarily concerned with acquisitional patterns of interlanguage knowledge over time, most studies in interlanguage pragmatics have focused on second language use rather than second language learning. The aim of this paper is to profile interlanguage pragmatics as an area of inquiry in second language acquisition research, by reviewing exis...

Rakic World Heritage : Issues and debates

Introduction World Heritage had originally been designed as a conservation tool for sites deemed to be of ‘outstanding universal value’ (UNESCO, 2006a). However, its status was soon to become very popular among tourists (Bandarin, 2005; Evans, 2001; Rakic & Leask, 2006; Shackley, 2006) and the World Heritage related issues thus also attracted great interest of the wider academic community. It s...

MALAYSIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Issues and Debates

Current Issues and Debates in SLA

The existing scholarship on Second Language Acquisition is replete with different tensions and debates, which reflect diverging epistemologies, theoretical bases and schools of thought. This paper deals with the current issues surrounding the two major and salient approaches to Second Language Acquisition, the cognitive/psycholinguistic camp and the sociocultural camp. After providing an overvi...