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Developing Contrastive Pragmatics : Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.

The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ptz, Martin
Otros Autores: Neff-van Aertselaer, JoAnne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Studies on Language Acquisition Sola, 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter ; Contents; Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics; A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding; Sociocultural conceptualizations: Schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German ; An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar: Cultural scripts in contrast; Argumentation patterns in different languages: An analysis of metadiscourse markers in English and Spanish texts; The management of global cultural diversity in ELT materials.
  • Reframing one's experience: Face, identity and roles in L2 argumentative discourseIndirect complaint in the language classroom: Cross-cultural contrasts between French and Japanese students of English; "We make such a mishmash": Bilingual language usage in classroom peer group talk; Pragmatics of humor in the foreign language classroom: Learning (with) humor; Interlanguage requests: A contrastive study; Development of requests: A study on Turkish learners of English; Perceived pragmatic transferability o f L1 request strategies by Persian learners of English.
  • Dutch English requests: A study of request performance by Dutch learners of EnglishContrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes: A study in variational pragmatics; Getting better in getting what you want: Language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns; Backmatter.