Exploring the Power of Social Talk in a Foreign Language - Possibilities for Integration and Critical Pedagogy

This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations.

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2. Lay and theoretical concepts of phatic talk. 3. Collaborative structured phatic talk. 4. Convergence: Bridging cross-cultural phatic gaps. 5. Critical phatic talk. 6. Critical Pedagogy

About the author

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. His recent books, published by Routledge, are Addressing Difficult Situations in Foreign-Language Learning: Confusion, Impoliteness, and Hostility (2019), Developing Cross-Cultural Relational Ability in Foreign Language Learning: Asset-Based Pedagogy to Enhance Pragmatic Competence (2022) and Towards a New Pedagogy for Teaching Foreign Language Politeness: Halliday's Model and Approaches to Politeness (Mugford, 2023, Routledge).

Product details

• Authors: Gerrard Mugford, Gerrard (La Universidad De Guadalajara Mugford
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032620329
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262032-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language acquisition, Teaching of a specific subject, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics