ABSTRACT
Interlanguage pragmatics, unlike other areas treated in this Handbook, can be related to second language acquisition (SLA), but also exists apart from SLA research. This chapter focuses on the intersection of pragmatics and SLA research. To this end, this section considers definitions of pragmatics as practiced in SLA, the development of interlanguage pragmatics and its affiliations with fields of inquiry in applied linguistics, and a brief history of pragmatics in SLA.
