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Part I Theoretical framework:a pragmatic approach, pragmatics - thebroad picture, pragmatic competence - communicative competence/ pragmaticcompetence - a working definition, speech acts - speechasct - from philosophyto linguistics/ the speech act in empirical research, politeness theories -conversational-maxim view/ face-saving view/ conversational-contact view, adiscourse perspective - discourse analysis the hypernym/ an integrative modelof discourse, pragmatics across cultures - contrastive pragmatics/cross-cultural pragmatics/ interlanguage pragmatics; acquistition issues inlearner pragmatics, intelanguage - a componential characterization - the L1influence/ pragmatic overgeneralization/ teaching-induced errors, questionsof development in learner pragmatics - theoretical approaches to L2 pragmaticacquisition/ grammatical competence a prerequisite/ the road to L2 pragmaticcompetence, external factors - input - learner-specific input/ input andlearning context, individual differences - how rude can you get? cultureshock in L2-land/ the L2 pragmatic norm an appropriate option?. Part II Anempirical perspective: experimental design, research instruments -trangulation of data/ data collection, informants - learner informants/native speaker informants, investigating speech acts - requests/ offers/refusals of offers, evaluating the data - focus of analysis/ procedures ofdata analysis; a pragmatic analysis, discourse structure, pragmatic routines- cases of non-equivalence/ cases of partial equivalence/ pragmatic routinesconcluding discussion, internal modification - syntactic downgraders/ lexicaland phrasal downgraders (L&PD); conclusion, summary of findings, limitationsof study, practical research implications, directions for future research.