Interlanguage pragmatics, unlike other areas treated in this Handbook, can be related to
second language acquisition (SLA), but also exists apart from SLA research. This chapter …

Interlanguage, a classic SLA term first coined by Selinker in 1972 to mean learners'
language, found a place in the domain of pragmatics in the 1990s. Since then …

As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in
understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition …

Unlike other areas of second language study, which are primarily concerned with
acquisitional patterns of interlanguage knowledge over time, most studies in interlanguage …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides a critical review of the second language (L2) …

Interlanguage pragmatics—the study of nonnative speakers' use and acquisition of L2
pragmatic knowledge—has hovered on the fringes of SLA research thus far. In theories of 12 …

Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to reinvigorate this field,
pointing the way forward to new methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new …

In this handbook series, pragmatics is understood in a broad sense as the scientific study of
all aspects of linguistic behavior. These aspects include patterns of linguistic action …

G. Kasper and R. Schmidt (1996) have argued that the field of investigation known as
interlanguage pragmatics has been essentially modelled on cross‐cultural pragmatics …

There is now a growing body of empirical evidence in interlanguage pragmatics (ILP)
research that focuses on language learners' knowledge of target language pragmatic …