Recommends that language teachers incorporate discourse and pragmatics in their teaching if they wish to implement a communicative approach in their classrooms.

In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the stud

How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is a monograph which presents a multidisciplinary theory of context and t

This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied an

This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse. Drawing on the pioneering work of Dale A. Koike, the volume contributes new