Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness: Halliday's Model and Approaches to Politeness

ISBN-13: 9781032351643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str.

Gerrard Mugford

Opis

This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  2 Positioning foreign language politeness  3 Prosocial politeness  4 Interpersonal politeness  5 Contested politeness  6 Foreign language politeness pedagogy

O autorze

Gerrard Mugford is a lecturer in pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics at la Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico. His current research interests include im/politeness, foreign-language interpersonal language use and critical pedagogy.