
Interlanguage Pragmatics
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 25. November 1993
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-19-506602-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of contributed, previously unpublished essays on topics in interlanguage pragmatics. `Pragmatics' refers to speakers' intended meaning, and `interlanguage' is the term used to describe the linguistic knowledge of how non-native speakers (and listeners) use their deficient communicative competence in order to cope with a variety of communicative tasks.
In this volume, sixteen distinguished linguists will focus on these central issues in interlanguage pragmatics: (1) non-native language users' consciousness of their pragmatic knowledge (metapragmatic awareness), (2) their conversational behaviour in interaction with native speakers, particularly with regard to social appropriateness, topic effects, and responding acts, and (3) interlanguage realization of complaints, apologies, and thanks.
The structure of conscious linguistic knowledge has become an important issue in second language acquisition research, but has received almost no attention in pragmatics. This volume will be the first comprehensive study of this important linguistic area.
In this volume, sixteen distinguished linguists will focus on these central issues in interlanguage pragmatics: (1) non-native language users' consciousness of their pragmatic knowledge (metapragmatic awareness), (2) their conversational behaviour in interaction with native speakers, particularly with regard to social appropriateness, topic effects, and responding acts, and (3) interlanguage realization of complaints, apologies, and thanks.
The structure of conscious linguistic knowledge has become an important issue in second language acquisition research, but has received almost no attention in pragmatics. This volume will be the first comprehensive study of this important linguistic area.
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This volume is welcome because it broadens the scope of intercultural pragmatics to include issues beyond attempts of nonnative speakers to perform various speech acts. * Language *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506602-9 (9780195066029)
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Gabriele Kasper | Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Interlanguage Pragmatics
E-Book
08/1993
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Persons
Editor
Associate Professor, Departments of Communication and EducationAssociate Professor, Departments of Communication and Education, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Professor of English as a Second LanguageProfessor of English as a Second Language, University of Hawai'i, Manoa