%0 Journal Article
%T On Pragmatic Failures in Second Language Learning
%A Xiaorong Luo
%A Jian Gao
%J Theory and Practice in Language Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.4304/tpls.1.3.283-286
%X Pragmatics is the study of the use of language in communication, which includes the study of how the interpretation and use of utterances depends on knowledge of the real world; how speakers use and understand speech acts; how the structure of sentences is influenced by the relationship between the speaker and the hearer. When the pragmatic force of a language is misunderstood, the communication fails, leading to pragmatic failures. The pragmatic failures are composed of pragmatic linguistic failures and social-pragmatic failures. By improving learners¡¯ linguistic and communicative competence and cultural quality, the pragmatic failures might be avoided.
%K pragmatic failure
%K second language learning
%K linguistic pragmatic failures
%K social-pragmatic
%K failures
%K communication
%U http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/4320