I am currently (co-)supervising six PhD students and am interested in PhD proposals in the areas of:

interlanguage pragmatics, cross-cultural pragmatics, varitional pragmatics, pragmatic development, pragmatics and the study abroad context.

In 20011/12 I teach on

• Ling 200 - Researching Language
• Ling 301 - Dissertation
• Ling 204 - Discourse Analysis
• Ling 425 - Culture and the Language Learner
• Ling 434 - Pragmatics
• Ling 534 - Trends and Issues in Language Teaching Methodology (distance)

In previous years I have also taught on

• Ling 212 - Second Language Acquisition
• Ling 410 - Trends and Issues in Language Teaching Methodology
• Pragmatics (Thesis & Coursework PhD module)
• Research Methods (Hong Kong)

My primary research interest lies in interlanguage pragmatics, in particular the development of learners' pragmatic awareness and productive pragmatic competence in second language or study abroad contexts.

I am also interested in research methodological innovations in interlanguage pragmatics, especially in developing ways of eliciting data that are more contextualized and show more characteristics of naturally occurring data than speech collected with traditional DCTs. Based on these methodological considerations, I designed a new computerized multi-media data collection instrument, the Multimedia Elicitation Task (MET), to elicit spoken language.

Recently, I have also become interested in perceptions of impoliteness events in different cultures and languages. Further research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics and the employment of formulaic sequences in spoken interactions.

I am a member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) , the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) and the Linguistic Politeness Research Group.

Administration

I am the Director of Studies for

• MA in Language Studies
• MA in Discourse Studies
• MA in English Language and Literary Studies

Publications

Book

Schauer, G. A. (2009). Interlanguage pragmatic development: The study abroad context. London: Continuum.

Journal articles

Culpeper, J., Marti, L., Mei, M., Nevala, M., & Schauer, G.A. (2010). Cross-cultural variation in the perception of impoliteness: A study of impoliteness events reported by students in England, China, Finland, Germany and Turkey. Intercultural Pragmatics, 7(4), 597-624.

Schauer, G. A. (2007). Finding the right words in the study abroad context: The development of German learners' use of external modifiers in English. Intercultural Pragmatics, 4(2), 193-220. [Special issue on acquisitional pragmatics]

Schauer, G. A. (2006). Pragmatic awareness in ESL and EFL contexts: Contrast and development. Language Learning, 56(2), 269-318.

Schauer, G. A., & Adolphs, S. (2006). Expressions of gratitude in corpus and DCT data: Vocabulary, formulaic sequences, and pedagogy. System, 34(1), 119-134.

Book chapters

Schauer, G.A. (2013). Pragmatics and Grammar. In C.A. Chappelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Schauer, G.A. (2010). Study abroad and its effect on speech act performance. In: A. Martinez Flor and E. Uso Juan (Eds.) Speech act performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodolgical issues (pp. 91-108). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Culpeper, J., & Schauer, G.A. (2009). Pragmatics. In: J. Culpeper, F. Katamba , P. Kerswill, T. McEnery and R. Wodak (Eds.) English Language: Description, variation and context (pp. 202-220). Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Schauer, G. A. (2008). Getting better in getting what you want: Language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns. In M. Puetz & J. Neff-van Aertselaer (Eds.), Developing contrastive pragmatics: Interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives (pp. 399-426). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schauer, G. A. (2006). The development of ESL learners' pragmatic competence: A longitudinal investigation of awareness and production. In K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Felix-Brasdefer & A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning (pp. 135-163). Manoa, HI: Second Language teaching and Curriculum Center University of Hawaii.

Schauer, G. A. (2004). May you speak louder maybe? Interlanguage pragmatic development in requests. In S. H. Foster-Cohen, M. Sharwood Smith, A. Sorace & M. Ota (Eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook (Vol. 4, pp. 253-273). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Other publications

Schauer, G. A. (2006). Knowing when to say what to whom: A longitudinal investigation of students' pragmatic development in a L2 university context. LAUD Paper 648. Duisburg/Essen: Linguistic Agency, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen.

Reviews

2010, Review: Alcón Soler, E. & A. Martinez-Flor (Eds.) (2008). Investigating pragmatics in foreign language learning, teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics 31(2), 313-316.

2007, Review: Cho, Yongkil (2005). Grammatik und Hoeflichkeit im Sprachvergleich. Direktive Handlungsspiele des Bittens, Aufforderns und Anweisen im Deutschen und Koreanischen. (A Comparison of Grammar and Politeness in German and Korean: Directive Language Games with Requests, Injunctions and Instructions). Journal of Politeness Research, 3(2), 325-329.

Presentations

Invited presentations and plenaries

Eliciting data with the Multimedia Elicitation Task (MET): a comparison of learners' requests in study abroad and EFL contexts, invited plenary held at the II International Seminar on Applied Linguistics at Universitat Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana, Spain, 8-9 November, 2007.

Developing productive and receptive pragmatic competence in the study abroad context: a multimedia investigation, invited presentation held at the University of Bristol, 15 February, 2006.

Conference presentations

Investigating the effect of explicit, implicit and no instruction on L2 learners' use of apologies in the study abroad context, presentation held at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL),Bristol, 1-3 September, 2011. (co-presented with Nicola Halenko)

Sorry may not be enough: Examining the effects of explicit, implicit and no instruction on L2 learners' interlanguage pragmatic development in the study abroad context, presentation held at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, 3-8 July, 2011. (co-presented with Nicola Halenko)

Impoliteness across cultures: a comparative analysis of impoliteness events in English and German, presentation held at the 4th International Conference Intercultural Pragmatics, Madrid, Spain, 15-17 November, 2010. (co-presented with Jonathan Culpeper)

Impoliteness events in English and German: a cross-cultural investigation, presentation held at the 37. Oesterreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, Austria, 5-7 December, 2009. (co-presented with Jonathan Culpeper)

Impoliteness in interpersonal interactions: a cross-cultural analysis of English and German, presentation held at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Newcastle, 3-5 September, 2009. (co-presented with Jonathan Culpeper)

Student-tutor communication in the university context: an intercultural pragmatic investigation, presentation held at AILA 2008 - 15th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Essen, Germany, 24-29 August, 2008.

The Cross-cultural Variation of Impoliteness: A Study of Face-attack in Impoliteness Events Reported by Students in China, Britain, Germany and Turkey, presentation held at the 4th International Symposium on Politeness, Budapest, Hungary, 2-4 July, 2008. (co-presented with Jonathan Culpeper, Leyla Marti, Meilian Mei)

Communicating with university staff in a second language: frequent problems and possible solutions, presentation held at the 3rd annual conference of the BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG, Lancaster, 2-3 July, 2007.

Discussing students' writing in academic tutorials: an interlanguage pragmatic investigation of institutional talk, presentation held at the annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, CA, USA, 21-24 April, 2007.

Which strategy? Language learners' pragmatic choices in a study abroad and EFL context, presentation held at the joint AAAL and ACLA Conference, Montreal, Canada, 17-20 June, 2006.

Knowing when to say what to whom: a longitudinal investigation of students' pragmatic development in a L2 university context, presentation held at the 31st LAUD Symposium, Landau, Germany, 27-30 March, 2006.

Noticing the p's and q's: the development of ESL learners' pragmatic proficiency, presentation held at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Bristol, 15-17 September, 2005.

The development of ESL learners' pragmatic competence: A longitudinal investigation of awareness and production, presentation held at the 16th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Indiana University - Bloomington, USA;14-16 April, 2005.

To be direct or not to be direct: Learners' and native speakers' use of directness levels in requests, poster presentation held at the Politeness Conference: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language and Culture, University of Nottingham, 12 March, 2005.

Interlanguage pragmatic development from two angles: production and comprehension, presentation held at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), London, 9-11 September, 2004.

The development of pragmatic awareness: A longitudinal study, presentation held at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Portland, OR, USA, 1-4 May, 2004.