Abstract
This chapter investigates the intersection of pragmatics, 'the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication'. It also investigates instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), a theoretically and empirically based field of academic inquiry that aims to understand how the systematic manipulation of the mechanisms of learning and/or the conditions under which they occur enable or facilitate the development and acquisition of a language other than one's own. The study of pragmatics is traditionally held to encompass at least five main areas: deixis, conversational implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. Research in pragmatics often distinguishes between pragmalinguistics, the language resources speakers' use for pragmatic purposes, and the rules that guide use of language in society and in context.
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