Pragmatics and communicative competence across languages -- speech acts (Austin/Searle), Grice's conversational maxims and implicature, politeness theory (Brown & Levinson), face-threatening acts, discourse structure, turn-taking, repair strategies, register and formality, cross-cultural communication, communicative strategies (circumlocution, approximation, appeal for assistance), and the gap between grammatical competence and communicative performance. Use when teaching communication skills, analyzing cross-cultural misunderstandings, building conversational fluency, or understanding why grammatically correct sentences can be pragmatically inappropriate.
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