This book adopts a cross-sectional approach and mainly focuses on one of
the core pragmatic constructs, formulaic/pragmatic routines, in addition
to components put forward by Roever (2011) and Taguchi (2013). It
actively integrates multidimensional pragmatic modalities-including both
production (initiating and responding) and reception (recognition,
comprehension, and perception), together with learners' cognitive
processes-rather than one or two types of task modalities. Focusing more
on the Chinese EFL context instead of Japanese or European L1 learners,
it also takes advantage of an emerging instrument, the computer-animated
elicitation task, for data collection based on authentic oral responses
and to avoid "coached" responses. The socio-cognitive approach, proposed
by the famous linguistic expert Prof. Istvan Kecskes, is subsequently
applied to conduct an in-depth analysis of the data. Hence, the book
introduces a new and fruitful theoretical perspective to the traditional
L2 pragmatic research field.