Links

This page list links to pages that will be of interest to pragmatics researchers. Many of them have been compiled through the Web Watch pages in our newsletter. Contact Tim Greer to suggest other links for our members.

Other Pragmatics-related Organizations and Conferences

• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
  

Discourse Analysis

• What is discourse analysis?
  

Speech Acts

• What is a speech act? A basic overview by LingualLinks
  

• Self-access, web-based materials for students of Japanese composed of an introductory modular unit for raising pragmatic awareness and five speech act units (apologies, compliments/responses to compliments, requests, refusals, and thanks).
  

• Why teach speech acts? Basic information and examples of a series of speech acts in a variety of languages.  It also has an extensive annotated bibliography of research on speech acts. 
  

Conversation Analysis

• Ethno/CA News  Paul ten Have's comprehensive CA site
  

Free Online Journals

• IPrA Journal: Pragmatics
  

-offers a complete online archive in open access

-nearly 10,000 pages of pragmatics articles freely accessible

• Discourse Analysis Online
  

• The Internet TESL Journal
  

• Reading in a Foreign Language
  

• Journal of Second Language Writing
  

Major print journals in the field

• Research on Language and Social Interaction
  

• Journal of Pragmatics
  

• Language and Communication
  

Other related journals

• Journal of Classroom Interaction
  

Tools for transcription and analysis

• Transana, a freely downloadable transcription and analysis tool
  

• CLAN, free software to help transcribe CA data
  

Using pragmatics in the classroom

• Teaching pragmatics
  

Online lessons plans which encorporate pragmatics into English classes

Discourse and culture

Politeness and face

JALT

This page was last updated: April 12, 2010