Contexts of Co-Constructed Discourse

Lori Czerwionka is Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at Purdue University. Her research on pragmatics and discourse focuses on mitigation, speech acts, and intercultural communicative competence. She has published in edited volumes and journals, including Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Hispania, and International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. Rachel Showstack is Associate Professor of Spanish at Wichita State University. Her research on co-construction and pragmatics in Spanish heritage language education appears in Language and Intercultural Communication, the Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, and the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education. Her current work addresses language and Latinx health.Judith Liskin-Gasparro is Associate Professor Emerita of Spanish and Applied Linguistics at the University of Iowa. Her research on the development and evaluation of L2 speaking proficiency in classroom or immersion environments has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and volumes, including The Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, Hispania, Applied Linguistics, and three Routledge volumes.

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Introduction: Context and Co-Construction in Interaction, Pragmatics, and Second Language ApplicationsCo-Constructed Discourse Chapter 2. Institutional Roles as Interactional Achievements: The Epistemics of Sports CommentaryChapter 3. [A/aa ‘oh’ + demo ‘but’]-Prefaced Affiliative Response in Japanese: Co-Construction of a Shared Stance Through Opinion-NegotiationChapter 4. Corrective Feedback and the Ideological Co-Construction of ExpertisePragmatics of DiscourseChapter 5. Multimodal and Co-Constructed Speech Acts: Authentic Gratitude and Other Responses to Compliments and Gifts in Peninsular SpanishChapter 6. Multimodal Resources in the Co-Construction of Humorous DiscourseChapter 7. Epistemic Causality in Spanish Narratives as Evidence of Knowledge FramesTeaching and Assessment of DiscourseChapter 8. Discourse Approaches to Second Language Reflections in Portfolio Assessment: An Activity Theory Account of Learner AgencyChapter 9. Intersubjectivity in Co-Constructed Test Discourse: What is the Role of L2 Speaking Ability?Chapter 10. Changing Expectations through Drama-Based Pedagogy: An L2 Spanish Conversation Course about Study AbroadAfterward. Co-Construction and Frames in a Post-Digital AgeEpilogue. Dale Koike and Research on Pragmatics in Interaction: Mentor, Collaborator, FriendIndex

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