Integrating the Speech Act of Refusals in the Instructed Setting.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an instructional approach for the integration of a particular pragmatic aspect, specifically, the speech act of refusals. To do that, the paper begins with a description of the speech under study and with a review of proposals for the teaching of pragmatic features in instructed settings. Following that, an instructional approach for the integration of refusal strategies in the instructed setting is proposed.