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Join us this week as we continue our series about learning pragmatics, or the verbal and nonverbal ways in which people communicate meaning, both interpersonally and interculturally. Through this series we will look at how to use Observe, Analyze and Extend strategies to understand a pragmatic speech act, and address what one can learn from pragmatic mistakes or misunderstandings.

This week we look at analyzing a speech act to better understand the grammatical structures, key words and phrases, and language strategies used.

There are a few ways to get connected with us this week:

• Join our InterCom Live! session. We connect on Facebook every Monday at 11:00 am Pacific. To join us, open CASLS's Facebook page at the designated time. Can't make it? The InterCom Live! events are always recorded, and you can find them on our Facebook page.
• Check out the Video and Activity of the Week! This activity guides learners through searching for tweets using a hashtag and analyzing the content and tone of the tweets they find.
• Curious about using corpora for Analyze strategy tasks? Check out this blog post for ideas on how to use corpora for language learning, and this list to find corpora in a variety of world languages.

Happy exploring! We are excited to continue engaging with you this week.