ABSTRACT
Taguchi and Roever (2017) identified three major areas in which the impact of globalization is prominent in L2 pragmatic research: English as a lingua franca, intercultural competence, and heritage language learning. The present chapter proposes a fourth area, namely intralingual regional pragmatic variation. Intralingual regional pragmatic variation is defined as pragmatic variation within a single language where variation according to region is seen on a number of levels, including a national level (e.g., Philippine English vs. American English) and a sub-national level (e.g., the state of Lower Saxony vs. Bavaria in Germany) (cf. Schneider & Barron, 2008; Schneider & Placencia, 2017).
