Interlanguage Request Modification

Name: Interlanguage Request Modification
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis Helen Woodfield(Editor)

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Published on 11. April 2012

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Interlanguage Request Modification
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Modification in interlanguage requests
References
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1. Introduction
2. Modification in interlanguage request development
2.1 The nature of requests
2.2 Development of request modification in young learners
2.3 Development of request modification in adult learners
2.4 Development of request modification in study abroad contexts
3. Method
3.1 Participants
3.2 Instrument and procedures
3.3 Data analysis
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Internal modification
4.1.1 Group analysis
4.1.2 Individual development
4.2 External modification
4.2.1 Group analysis
4.2.2 Individual development
4.2.3 Comparison of modification according to contextual variables
4.2.3.1 Internal modification
4.2.3.2 External modification
4.3 Formulaic devices, ellipsis, lexical non-target forms
4.4 Lexical non-target forms
5. Summary and conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Developmental patterns in internal modification in requests
1. Introduction
2. Background: Research on L2 requests with a focus on modification
2.1 Two early studies on requests
2.2 Cross-sectional developmental studies on requests: An overview
2.3 Longitudinal studies: An overview
2.4 Recent studies dealing with interlanguage request modification patterns in relation to social variables and discourse situations
3. Methodology
3.1 Participants
3.2 Instrumentation and procedures
3.3 Data analysis
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Overall syntactic downgrader use
4.2 Syntactic downgrader use in each situation
4.3 An evaluation of the learners' syntactic downgraders in terms of situational variation
4.4 Overall lexical and phrasal downgrader use
4.5 Lexical and phrasal downgrader use in situations
4.6 An evaluation of the learners' lexical and phrasal downgraders in terms of situational variation
5. Conclusions
5.1 Limitations of the study
5.2 Employment of syntactic downgraders
5.3 Lexical and phrasal downgrader use
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
E-mail requests to faculty
1. Introduction
2. Previous research on e-mail discourse
2.1 E-mail discourse as a hybrid medium of communication
2.2 E-politeness and appropriateness in L2 e-mail requests
2.3 Previous research on e-mail requests in student-faculty interaction
2.3.1 Purposes and topics in e-mail requests
2.3.2 Level of imposition and degree of directness in e-mail requests
2.3.3 Internal modification in e-mail requests
3. Method
3.1 Data, participants, and procedures
3.2 Data analysis
4. Results
4.1 Low and high imposition e-mail requests
4.2 Internal modifications of e-mail requests
5. Discussion
5.1 Low and high imposition e-mail requests
5.2 Internal modification of e-mail requests
6. Conclusion
References
Interlanguage requests in institutional e-mail discourse
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1 Interlanguage request - Strategy choices and mitigation
2.2 Request in e-mail discourse
3. Research questions
3.1 Pragmatic production
3.2 Pragmatic perception
4. Method
4.1 Participants
4.2 Instrument
4.2.1 Choice of instrument
4.2.2 Validation of the instrument
4.3 Data collection procedures
4.4 Data coding and analysis
5. Results and discussion
5.1 Pragmatic production - Level of directness
5.2 Internal modification
5.2.1 Syntactic downgraders
5.2.2 Lexical/phrasal downgraders
5.3 External modification
5.4 Pragmatic perception
6. Methodological and pedagogical implications
7. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Part I. Personal information
Please complete the following form by filling in or ticking (V) relevant information where applicable.
Part II. E-DCT
This questionnaire consists of three parts:
Situation 1
Part A: Email message
Part B: Measurement of confidence in appropriateness of language usage in email message.
Part C: Weighing the size of imposition.
Appendix 2
Modifying oral requests in a foreign language
1. Introduction
2. Internal modification, external modification and request perspective: Setting the scene
2.1 Previous research
2.1.1 Internal modification in requests: Main findings from previous research
2.1.2 External modification in requests: Main findings from previous research
2.1.2.1 Learners tend to overuse external modifiers as compared to native control groups.
2.1.2.2 Learners tend to opt for external rather than internal modification.
2.1.2.3 The grounder as the most frequent supportive move in interlanguage request production.
2.1.2.4 Intermediate learners make a wider use of external modification than lower level learners.
2.1.3 Request perspective
3. Method
3.1 Participants
3.2 Instrumentation and procedures
3.3 Data coding and analysis
4. Results
4.1 General modification tendencies: Lexical/phrasal downgraders, supportive moves and request perspective
4.2 Internal/external modification: Specific choices
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion and summary
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Request modification by Australian learners of Indonesian
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Pragmatic acquisition
2.2 Modifiers
2.3 Second language speech act performance
2.4 Request sub-strategies
2.4.1 The query preparatory modal request
2.4.2 Imperative
2.4.3 Direct question
3. Method
3.1 Subjects
3.2 Procedure
3.3 Judgments of appropriateness
4. Findings and Discussion
4.1 Modification of query preparatory requests
4.1.1 Internal modification: Findings
4.1.2 Lack of internal modification by the learners on query preparatory requests: Discussion
4.1.3 External modification of query preparatory requests: Findings
4.1.4 Frequent and lengthy grounding by the learners on their query preparatory requests: Discussion
4.1.5 Development with proficiency in amount of grounding on query preparatory requests: Findings and discussion
4.1.6 Summary: Modification of query preparatory requests
4.2 Modification of imperative requests
4.2.1 Internal modification of imperatives: Findings
4.2.2 Frequent use of internal modifier -lah by learners on imperatives: Discussion
4.2.3 Summary: Modification of imperative requests
4.3 Modification of direct questions
4.3.1 Internal Modification of direct questions: Findings
4.3.2 External modification of direct questions: Findings
4.3.3 Lack of prefaces on direct questions by the learners: Discussion
4.3.4 Comparing modification of different request types
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1
Examining EFL learners' long-term instructional effects when mitigating requests
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Studies examining the long-term effects of pragmatic instruction
2.2 Request modification devices
3. Methodology
3.1 Participants
3.2 Data collection procedure
3.3 Pragmatic teaching approach
3.4 Data analysis
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
5.1 Limitations of the study and future research
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Teachability of request act peripheral modification devices in third language learning contexts
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Communicative competence and interlanguage pragmatics
2.2 Instructional effects in interlanguage pragmatics
2.3 The speech act of requesting
2.4 Interlanguage pragmatics and multilingualism
3. Method
3.1 Participants
3.2 Data collection
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion and pedagogical implications
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
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