Variation in Second Language Acquisition
Discourse and Pragmatics
Published on 1. April 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-85359-025-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book and its accompanying volume, Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Psycholinguistic Issues, presents a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields: quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies and second language acquisition. The diversity of these contributing fields exposes the richness of the approaches represented in these two volumes. Along with this diversity, a generalised view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- and psycholinguistic issues begins to emerge. Such a view allows one to see more directly the relevance of second language acquisition studies to the central questions of language. By focusing on the need to incorporate variability into our understanding of the nature of language, the books make important contributions not only to methodological and theoretical issues in second language acquisition, but also to the role of these issues in general linguistics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-025-2 (9781853590252)
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Susan Gass | Carolyn Madden | Dennis R. Preston
Variation in Second Language Acquisition
Discourse and Pragmatics
Book
04/1989
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Content
PREFACE
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Susan Gass, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston and Larry Selinker
SECTION TWO: MODELS AND STANDARDS
2. Albert Valdman: The Elaboration of Pedagogical Norms for Second Language Learners in a Conflictual Diglossia Situation
SECTION THREE: PRAGMATICS
3. Gabriele Kasper: Variation in lnterlanguage Speech Act Realisation
4. Elite Olshtain and Shoshana Blum-Kulka: Happy Hebrish: Mixing and Switching in American-Israeli Family Interactions
5. JoAnne Kleifgen: Communicative Inferencing without a Common Language
6. Leslie Beebe and Tomoko Takahashi: Do You Have a Bag?: Social Status and Patterned Variation in Second Language Acquisition
SECTION FOUR: TEXT AND CONVERSATION
7. Charlotte Basham and Patricia Kwachka: Variation in Modal Use by Alaskan Eskimo Student Writers
8. Jacqueline Stalker and James Stalker: The Acquisition of Rhetorical Strategies in Introductory Paragraphs in Written Academic English: A Comparison of NNSs and NSs
9. Jessica Williams: Pronoun Copies, Pronominal Anaphora and Zero Anaphora in Second Language Production
10. Susan Fiksdal: Framing Uncomfortable Moments in Crosscultural Gatekeeping Interviews
SECTION FIVE: POWER AND SOLIDARITY
11. Miles Woken and John Swales: Expertise and Authority in Native-Non-native Conversations: The Need for a Variable Account
12. Jane Zuengler: Performance Variation in NS-NNS Interactions: Ethnolinguistic Difference, or Discourse Domain?
13. Tomoko Takahashi: The Influence of the Listener on L2 Speech
SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction
Susan Gass, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston and Larry Selinker
SECTION TWO: MODELS AND STANDARDS
2. Albert Valdman: The Elaboration of Pedagogical Norms for Second Language Learners in a Conflictual Diglossia Situation
SECTION THREE: PRAGMATICS
3. Gabriele Kasper: Variation in lnterlanguage Speech Act Realisation
4. Elite Olshtain and Shoshana Blum-Kulka: Happy Hebrish: Mixing and Switching in American-Israeli Family Interactions
5. JoAnne Kleifgen: Communicative Inferencing without a Common Language
6. Leslie Beebe and Tomoko Takahashi: Do You Have a Bag?: Social Status and Patterned Variation in Second Language Acquisition
SECTION FOUR: TEXT AND CONVERSATION
7. Charlotte Basham and Patricia Kwachka: Variation in Modal Use by Alaskan Eskimo Student Writers
8. Jacqueline Stalker and James Stalker: The Acquisition of Rhetorical Strategies in Introductory Paragraphs in Written Academic English: A Comparison of NNSs and NSs
9. Jessica Williams: Pronoun Copies, Pronominal Anaphora and Zero Anaphora in Second Language Production
10. Susan Fiksdal: Framing Uncomfortable Moments in Crosscultural Gatekeeping Interviews
SECTION FIVE: POWER AND SOLIDARITY
11. Miles Woken and John Swales: Expertise and Authority in Native-Non-native Conversations: The Need for a Variable Account
12. Jane Zuengler: Performance Variation in NS-NNS Interactions: Ethnolinguistic Difference, or Discourse Domain?
13. Tomoko Takahashi: The Influence of the Listener on L2 Speech