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This paper deals with selected aspects of current DaF textbooks in between linguistics and didactics in two ways. First, we ask how to verify the pragmatic elements of communication in a foreign language textbook. Second, we look at a study dealing with speech acts in DaF textbooks. In this sense, we examine a methodological-theoretical question related to speech act theory, and also discuss an analysis of selected textbooks. The subject of this analysis is macrospeech act instruction and speech acts in conversations in DaF textbooks. The results show that the spectrum of speech acts is quite complex, even if, for the development of pragmatic competence in German learners, a more extensive variety of speech acts would be desirable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, German as a foreign language (DaF) has been intensively debated with regard to certain deficits in cultural mediation, with the aim of (re-)integrating cultural content in teaching DaF. This article discusses the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of affairs, and points out the important role of Cultural Theory in teaching, and the potential use of the concept of Linguistic Landscapes (as developed in Cultural Studies) to open up new perspectives for DaF teaching by accentuating the close connection between language and culture. In the second part of the paper the didactic potential of this concept is clarified by introducing several suggestions for lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]