L2 Pragmatics in Academic Discourse: A Case Study of Tutorials in Britain
L2 Pragmatics in Academic Discourse: A Case Study of Tutorials in Britain
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学术话语中的第二语用学:英国教程案例研究
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2003
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Y. Fujii
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Joan Turner;Masako K. Hiraga;Y. Fujii
This paper attempts to contribute to two issues in Second Language Pragmatics (L2 Pragmatics hereafter). First, it presents a theoretical claim that a genre analytical approach is a viable methodological framework in which we can examine pragmatic phenomena in a particular socio-cultural context. In this paper, we specifically focus on tutor-student interaction in higher education. The second contribution is a detailed analysis of difficulties of pragmatic understanding faced by Japanese students studying in Great Britain. The specific examples of difficulties have been selected on the basis of frequency, importance, and generalisability, and analysed according to two areas of sociopragmatic structuring: tutor-student interaction, which defines the nature and the role of the participants in tutorials, and values of achievement, analysis, and inquiry, which constitute the sociopragmatic background and which are implicated in recurring exchanges in the tutorials. It is hoped that this type of pragmatic comparison obtained by a genre-analytical approach to data will make a valid contribution to a theoretical understanding of L2 pragmatics and provide a useful resource in the pedagogical context. 1. Pragmatic Difficulties This paper looks at the difficulties of pragmatic understanding faced by Japanese students studying in Great Britain. In illustrating areas of pragmatic difficulty, this study draws on a specific theoretical perspective, relating the performance and uptake of speech acts to their location within a particular genre, i.e., tutorial sessions between Japanese students and British tutors. It is argued that the difficulties stem mainly from two areas of sociopragmatic structuring of the genre: tutor-student interaction and the implicit value system operating