Reseña: Vera Luján, Agustín y Blanco Rodríguez, Mercedes (2014). Cuestiones de pragmática en la enseñanza del español como 2/L. Madrid, España: Arco/Libros.

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https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.2.38

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PRAGMATICS, SPANISH, SECOND LANGUAGES, SPEECH ACTS

Abstract

The reviewed volume considers the repercussions of pragmatic phenomena in the teaching of Spanish as a Second Language. Reflecting on the linguistic domain of the discipline of pragmatics, it proposes an open conception of said discipline that it terms expanded pragmatic theory. This new vision takes into account a wide range of different discursive units—from the minimum unit (the utterance) to the maximum unit (the text)—and examines them through the prism of Speech Act Theory. In a detailed analysis of phenomena observed in the Curriculum Plan for the Instituto Cervantes, the authors apply the concepts they have outlined to the process of teaching/learning Spanish as a Second Language, and propose a wide battery of rigorous activities that the reader can take to the classroom.

Author Biography

Angela Mura, Universidad de Alicante

Angela Mura has a doctorate in Spanish from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a master’s degree in the Teaching of Spanish and English as Second or Foreign Languages from the Universidad de Alicante (AU), and a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the Università degli Studi di Sassari (Italy). Dr. Mura is Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpretation (Italian) at the Universidad de Murcia and a member of the Research Group GRIALE at AU, the COLA Project at the Universidad de Bergen (Norway), and the FRASYTRAM Project (AU). Her areas of research are Spanish/Italian contrastive phraseology, the didactics of phraseology, Italian as Foreign Language, Spanish as Foreign Language, and irony and humor.

Published

2015-08-30

How to Cite

Mura, A. (2015). Reseña: Vera Luján, Agustín y Blanco Rodríguez, Mercedes (2014). Cuestiones de pragmática en la enseñanza del español como 2/L. Madrid, España: Arco/Libros. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2(1), 107–109. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.2.38

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Book and Technology Reviews

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