Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development

L2 learners may make interpretive mistakes at both the explicit and the implicit levels of communication. They may not construct the right lower- or higher-level explicatures, turn explicatures into unintended implicatures, miss implicit contents or recover alternative implicatures. Defective master...

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Autor: Padilla Cruz, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/34218
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.09.005
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Misunderstanding
Meta-psychological awareness
Naïve optimism
Epistemic vigilance
Cautious optimism
Relevance theory
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spelling Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic developmentPadilla Cruz, ManuelMisunderstandingMeta-psychological awarenessNaïve optimismEpistemic vigilanceCautious optimismRelevance theoryL2 learners may make interpretive mistakes at both the explicit and the implicit levels of communication. They may not construct the right lower- or higher-level explicatures, turn explicatures into unintended implicatures, miss implicit contents or recover alternative implicatures. Defective mastery of the L2 code, lack of the necessary pragmalinguistic and/or sociopragmatic knowledge, and selection of an inadequate processing strategy may cause learners to arrive at unintended interpretations, which may accidentally appear relevant or irrelevant. If they behave as naïvely optimistic hearers and trust unintended interpretations, they could end up making wrong attributions of beliefs and intentions. Therefore, this paper argues that instruction in L2 pragmatics should develop a necessary meta-psychological awareness of comprehension as a way to develop or fine-tune learners’ epistemic vigilance (Mascaro and Sperber, 2009 and Sperber et al., 2010) of the reliability of the interpretive routes they follow and the believability of the interpretations they arrive at. It also claims that epistemic vigilance is essential when comprehension skills are underdeveloped or not as sophisticated as those of natives, since it may trigger a more sophisticated processing strategy that enables hearers to avoid or overcome misunderstandings, namely cautious optimism.ElsevierFilología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)2013info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11441/34218https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.09.005reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésJournal of Pragmatics, 59, Part A, 117–135info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/342182026-06-17T12:51:07Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
title Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
spellingShingle Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
Misunderstanding
Meta-psychological awareness
Naïve optimism
Epistemic vigilance
Cautious optimism
Relevance theory
title_short Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
title_full Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
title_fullStr Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
title_full_unstemmed Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
title_sort Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Padilla Cruz, Manuel
author Padilla Cruz, Manuel
author_facet Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Misunderstanding
Meta-psychological awareness
Naïve optimism
Epistemic vigilance
Cautious optimism
Relevance theory
topic Misunderstanding
Meta-psychological awareness
Naïve optimism
Epistemic vigilance
Cautious optimism
Relevance theory
description L2 learners may make interpretive mistakes at both the explicit and the implicit levels of communication. They may not construct the right lower- or higher-level explicatures, turn explicatures into unintended implicatures, miss implicit contents or recover alternative implicatures. Defective mastery of the L2 code, lack of the necessary pragmalinguistic and/or sociopragmatic knowledge, and selection of an inadequate processing strategy may cause learners to arrive at unintended interpretations, which may accidentally appear relevant or irrelevant. If they behave as naïvely optimistic hearers and trust unintended interpretations, they could end up making wrong attributions of beliefs and intentions. Therefore, this paper argues that instruction in L2 pragmatics should develop a necessary meta-psychological awareness of comprehension as a way to develop or fine-tune learners’ epistemic vigilance (Mascaro and Sperber, 2009 and Sperber et al., 2010) of the reliability of the interpretive routes they follow and the believability of the interpretations they arrive at. It also claims that epistemic vigilance is essential when comprehension skills are underdeveloped or not as sophisticated as those of natives, since it may trigger a more sophisticated processing strategy that enables hearers to avoid or overcome misunderstandings, namely cautious optimism.
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