EFFECTIVE WAYS OF TEACHING PRAGMATICS: HUMOR IN THE CLASSROOM

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Pragmatics. English Teaching. Humor. Systemic-Functional Linguistics

Abstract

The objective of this paper is the consideration that in teaching L2 pragmatics the socio-culturally and contextually appropriate (or inappropriate) communication will depend on the teaching of L2 pragmatics in the classroom in certain instances, as there can be many pragmatically appropriate ways to ask for information, to schedule an appointment, etc. The corpus is based on utterances and situations found in teaching English as L2 environment. Our particular context is one of a regular English class in a private English school in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) in which the excerpt of the movie “Philomena” and comic cartoons to teach English were used. Some results showed that the great majority of the investigated students could not make out the humorous scenes of the video and cartoons before the scenes/cartoons were culturally depicted to them mainly due to pragmatic issues.

Author Biographies

Ulisses De Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

Ulisses Oliveira is currently taking postdoctoral studies at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). Ulisses Oliveira holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Sao Paulo) and a Master’s degree in the same area and university. Works at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), where he teaches English and Linguistics disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, Ulisses works in Postgraduate education in two programs: (1) The Post-Graduation Program in Language Studies (PPGLetras) - research area of "Discourse, subjectivity and language teaching"; and (2) The Professional Master's Degree in Literature (PROFLETRAS). At the graduate level, Ulisses works as Postgraduate Student Adviser and teaches disciplines within his research project scope ("Persuasion and ideology at the interface between Systemic-Functional Linguistics and literatures in Galician-Portuguese, Portuguese and English languages"). He was a professor at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), Coordinator of the Laureate English Program at Laureate International Universities and English professor at the School of Business and Hospitality at Anhembi Morumbi University, where he assisted in the implementation, and was later in charge of developing the discipline of English in Business and Hospitality Schools. Anhembi Morumbi University is a member of Laureate International Universities. He assisted the implementation of the English course in both Schools (at UAM) which applied the blended learning as methodology. During this time, Ulisses taught English for Marketing, Business Administration, International Trade, Hospitality, Tourism and International Affairs. As a researcher, he studies and has publications in the following areas: (a) ICT, focusing on blended and tandem learning for in-curriculum subjects and CLIL; (b) Systemic-Functional Linguistics, with integrated studies of literature and linguistics, and focus on the analysis of transitivity, persuasion and ideology; and (c) Portuguese Philology and comparative literature, with regard to diachronic studies involving Galician-Portuguese medieval songs, baroque literature and modernism.

Sumiko Ikeda, PUC-SP

A dra. Sumiko Nishitani Ikeda possui graduação em Letras Anglo-Germânicas pela Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP) (1961), mestrado em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1977) e doutorado em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1986). Atualmente é professora titular no curso de pós graduação em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem (LAEL) da PUCSP. De 1992 a 1998, exerceu, na qualidade de professora titular, magistério e pesquisa na Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies e na Kakuritsu Kokugo Kenkyujoo de Tokyo. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, com ênfase na interface Discurso e Gramática, atuando na linha de pesquisa Linguagem, Trabalho e Educação, principalmente nos seguintes temas: Linguística Crítica - Metáfora - Appraisal - Português para Estrangeiros - sob o enfoque em especial da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional.

Marcelo Saparas, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados – UFGD

Possui graduação em Odontologia pela Universidade de Santo Amaro (1982), graduação em Letras - Inglês pelo Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (2004), mestrado em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem - PUCSP (2006) e doutorado em Linguística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem - PUCSP (2012). Atualmente é pesquisador de instituição externa da Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul e professor adjunto da Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, com ênfase em Linguística, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: linguística, tradução, ensino da língua inglesa, persuasão e metáfora. Pós-Doutorado em ACD pela PUCSP.

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2020-05-25

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De Oliveira, U., Ikeda, S., & Saparas, M. (2020). EFFECTIVE WAYS OF TEACHING PRAGMATICS: HUMOR IN THE CLASSROOM. Revista Língua&Literatura, 21(38), 118–134. Retrieved from https://revistas.fw.uri.br/revistalinguaeliteratura/article/view/3453

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Vol. 21 No. 38 (2019): Ensino de Línguas Estrangeiras e uso de Tecnologias

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