Metapragmatic instruction manuals

treatment of speech acts, and metapragmatic information, including discussion(s) of register, illocutionary force, politeness, appropriacy and usage, and found that textbooks included a lack of explicit metapragmatic information, and teachers' manuals rarely supplemented adequately. The researcher also found that teachers L2 LEARNERS' ACQUISITION OF PRAGMATIC DEVICES IN ACADEMIC WRITING AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE JENNIFER R. WISHNOFF University of Hawai'i ABSTRACT This study had two purposes: The first was to investigate the effects of instruction on pragmatic acquisition in writing. In particular, the focus was on the use of hedging devices in the academic A metapragmatic expression denotes an event of speaking. An embedded metapragmatic construction embeds one metapragmatic expression within another, as in "Bush said Clinton lied." This article reports that embedded metapragmatic constructions, when used in television news coverage of U.S. political campaigns, most often predicate on the topic of lying. Metapragmatic attacks unravel the raw fabric of communicative interactions, exposing the disputants' maneuvers as they struggle for control, respect, and interactional dominance. 15. In Crosstalk, Gumperz captured a metapragmatic attack during the interaction between the SAE speaking customer and the BE speaking teller, but he failed to The subjects were pretested and posttested regarding their comprehension of request, apology and complaint. The authors concluded that explicit metapragmatic instruction facilitates interlanguage pragmatic development. This, therefore, suggests that pragmatic competence does not seem resistant to explicit instruction. This paper suggests a series of steps for teaching complaint behaviour in English. The production of complaints requires a meta-pragmatic awareness of their interactive value and functions, their different types and realisations, pragmalinguistic formulae frequently employed or the socio-pragmatic fac