Interlanguage Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication
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MSCA-2020-AVandeCasteele02
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Beschrijving van het project
The primary focus of interlanguage pragmatics is on speech acts, politeness, conversational routines and intercultural communication. The overall aim of this research line is to provide insights into interlanguage variation by contrasting language learners’ linguistic proficiency and their productive pragmalinguistic competence. The purpose is to identify which linguistic aspects contribute to a successfully produced discourse achieving its communicative goals. Several aspects can be considered such as the role of specific linguistic devices (e.g. the use of discourse markers) as hedging devices to alter the impact of an utterance; the role of politeness orientation in speech act realizations and interactions between speakers with a different linguistic background; the characteristics of different types of turn-taking strategies in language learners’ discourse; the effect of instruction on L2 pragmatic competence, etc.
An Vande Casteele belongs to the research group “Centre for Linguistics”, a leading centre for research on multilingualism and second language teaching. She is currently supervising research in L2 Spanish pragmatics and contrastive studies comparing different language learners populations (e.g. L2 English /vs/ L2 Spanish /vs/ control group of native speakers). Researchers interested in this field of interlanguage pragmatics and intercultural communication are welcome to discuss ideas for the submission of a research proposal.
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Centre for Linguistics (CLIN)
CLIN is part of the Linguistics and Literary Studies department (LIST) within the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. The main objective of CLIN is to promote research in theoretical and applied linguistics and the application of this research in the wider society. Research at CLIN addresses a broad spectrum of issues related to the structure, use, learning and teaching, impairment, historical development, and the social and political contexts of languages. Recent work includes studies on morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, sociohistorical linguistics, bilingualism and bilingual education, aphasia, childhood speech and language disorders, second language acquisition, and methodology and practice in language teaching. Applications of research at CLIN include consultancy for private and public organisations in the areas of language and education policy, curriculum design, language teaching material development, language assessment, speech pathology, and natural language processing. Furthermore, the research centre hosts the Werkgroep Over Taal (WOT), a platform for the collaborative interchange of knowledge via presentations and workshops by international (guest-)speakers covering a wide variety of linguistic topics.