Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Troy McConachy is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. His research interests include intercultural pragmatics and intercultural language teaching and learning.

In this timely book Troy McConachy offers a theoretically engaging and deeply insightful argument for developing in learners an ‘intercultural perspective on language use’. It highlights, through rich exemplification, the way in which even the most ordinary discussions in the foreign language learning classroom become an opportunity to explore, in reflective and analytic ways, the intricacies entailed in exchanging meanings in interaction across languages and cultures.

• Figures and TablesForewordPrefaceIntroduction                                                                                                                      Chapter 1: Pragmatics and Culture in Communicative Language Teaching                              Chapter 2: Linking Pragmatics and Intercultural Language Learning                                           Chapter 3: Developing a View of Language Use as Social Action                                                 Chapter 4: Reflection on Experience as Resource for Intercultural Learning                                          Chapter 5: Combining Performance and Reflection for Learning                                                Chapter 6: Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use                         Conclusion                                                                                                                         List of References                                                                                                       Subject Index