Review: Chini, Marina (a cura di). (2015). Il parlato in (italiano) L2:aspetti pragmatici e prosodici. [(Italian) L2 spoken discourse: Prosodic and pragmatic aspects]. Milano, Italia: Franco Angeli.

Abstract

The volume edited by Marina Chini serves as a forum for discussion among scholars working in interlanguage prosody and pragmatics. Pragmatics is understood here in a broad sense, encompassing the encoding of informational notions in sentence structure, categories of discourse management, and features of discourse interactions in educational settings. In this review I provide an overall evaluation of the volume together with a brief summary of the individual contributions.

Keywords

• l2 pragmatics
• interaction in l2
• information structure
• discourse structure
• l2 prosody