"While symbolic action has been seen in CLT as the pragmatic or interpersonal functionof language, it has usually been taught in the US as interaction rituals of a predictable kind,the good manners and etiquette of everyday life. It has not been taught as the construction ofsocial reality through performative speech acts and the emotional and ideological impact ofwords. To understand how speakers and writers construct the very culture that we see themrepresenting through spoken and written texts, teachers might want to read, for example,Fairclough (1989) or Ochs (2002)"

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Kramsch, Claire (2011) The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural LANGUAGE TEACHING vol. 44, JUL 2011 (Part 3, pp. 354-367. DOI: 10.1017/S0261444810000431