Pragmatics for language educators a sociolinguistic perspective esl applied linguistics professional series 1st edition by locastro virginia 2011 paperback books amazonca. Pragmatics for language educators a sociolinguistic perspective esl and applied linguistics professional series author locastro virginia october 2011 locastro virginia books amazonca. Pragmatics for language educators a sociolinguistic perspective esl applied linguistics professional series locastro virginia routledge taylor francis group making pragmatics accessible to a wide range of students and instructors without dumbing down the content of the field this text for language professionals 1 raises awareness and increases knowledge and understanding of how . Pragmatics for language educators a sociolinguistic perspective esl applied linguistics professional series by virginia locastro 2011 08 31 books amazonca. The sustained focus on the interface between pragmatics and sociolinguistics or on sociopragmatics provides the book with its undoubted strengths although as i will discuss below it is also the source of some weaknesses