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Pragmatics Matters

The newsletter of the JALT Pragmatics SIG

About
 

The SIG's online newsletter, Pragmatic Matters, comes out three to four times a year. It includes reports on conferences and newly published research, as well as interviews with pragmatics researchers in Japan and other countries. There are also sections on using pragmatics in the language classroom and links to pragmatics related websites.

Latest issue 

 

  • A shopper’s nightmare: Dealing with false accusations of shoplifting (Ian Munby) .......................... 4

  • A study of teacher beliefs about teaching L2 pragmatic competence: Insights into its value, methodology, and issues to be solved (Saki Araki) ............................................................................. 9

  • PanSIG2022 Report .............................................................................................................. 14

  • Teaching varied discourse moves: Theory and method (James Bury) .............................................. 14

  • Reports from JALT2022 ........................................................................................................ 16

  • Art by Rob Olsen ................................................................................................................... 25

  • JALT Pragmatics SIG Committee Members (2023) ............................................................... 26

Regular columns
 

Recent Issues

Issue 61 Spring 2023

Issue 60 Fall 2022

Issue 59 Summer 2022

Issue 58 Fall 2021

(Interactive Flipbook | PDF)

Issue 57 Summer 2021

(Interactive Flipbook | PDF)

Issue 56 Fall 2020 (Interactive Flipbook | PDF)

Issue 55 Summer 2020

Issue 54 Spring 2019

Issue 53 Fall 2018

Issue 52 Summer 2018

Issue 51 Fall 2017

Issue 50 Spring 2017

Issue 49 Fall 2016

Issue 48 Summer 2016

Issue 47 Spring 2016

Issue 46, Fall 2015

Issue 45, Summer 2015

Issue 44, Winter 2014

Issue 43, Summer 2014

Issue 42 Fall 2013

Issue 41, Spring 2013

Issue 40, Winter 2013

Issue 39, Fall 2012

Issue 38, Spring 2012

Issue 37, Winter 2012

Issue 36, Summer 2011

Issue 35, PLL Special issue

 

2010 - present

 

  • ​SIG news
  • Journal watch
  • Web watch
  • Materials 
  • Conference reports
  • People watch

Contact the editor
 

We are always on the look out for articles. If you are interested in contributing something to the next newsletter, please contact the coordinator, Donna Fujimoto - fujimotodonna [at] gmail.com 

2010 - present

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