This seminar aims to raise participants’ awareness of cross-cultural pragmatic norms. A variety of speech acts will be explored such as apologizing, requesting, and refusing, focusing on the mismatches and inconsistencies in these acts between English and Japanese. Moreover, the seminar will focus on cross-cultural and intra-cultural misunderstandings, and the appropriate expressions/strategies of politeness. Lastly, it will introduce ways to teach pragmatics through consciousness-raising tasks, and how such activities address student motivation to learn.

Ed.D, Temple University (2002) in TESOL/Interlanguage Pragmatics. Dr. Kawate－Mierzejewska now teaches cross－cultural pragmatics, linguistics (incl. sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics) and other subjects at Temple University Japan Campus. She is a former official consultant of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Japan.

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