Pragmatics and Language Learning Series
Volume 11, (2006). Ed. by Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig; J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer; Alwiya S. Omar. Pragmatics and Language Learning. Distributed for the National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii
Books on Pragmatics
Blakemore, Diane. (1992). Understanding utterances: An introduction to pragmatics. London: Blackwell.
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper (eds.). (1989). Cross-cultural pragmatics : requests and apologies. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex.
Green, Georgia. (1989). Pragmatics and natural language understanding. New York: Erlbaum.
Kasper, Gabriele, and Eric Kellerman, (Eds.). (1997). Communication strategies: Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. New York: Longman.
Kasper, Gabriele, and Kenneth Rose. (2003). Pragmatic development in a second language. New York: Blackwell.
Kasper, Gabriele, and Shoshana Blum-Kulka (eds.). (1993). Interlanguage pragmatics. New York : Oxford University Press.
Rose, Kenneth, and Gabriele Kasper. (2001). Pragmatics in language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Textbooks on Pragmatics
Grundy, P. (1995). Doing pragmatics. Edward Arnold.
Mey, J. (1993). Pragmatics: An introduction. Blackwell.
Schiffrin, D. (1994). Approaches to discourse. Blackwell.
Thomas, J. (1995). Meaning in interaction: An introduction to pragmatics. Longman.
Useful Links
CARLA website on pragmatics: http://www.carla.umn.edu/speechacts
Simulated Oral Proficiency Exam (SOPE): http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/test/sopev3
Provides a web-based testing format and platform in Flash for assessing oral proficiency in given speech acts.
Spanish Corpus and Proficiency Level Training: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/spt
Examples of learners as they respond with different speech acts to a given set of questions.
International Pragmatics Association (IPRA): http://ipra.ua.ac.be