Speech acts across cultures : challenges to communication in a second language /
This book investigates the notion of Speech Acts from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are realized from culture to culture in different ways and that these differences may result in communication difficulties that range from the humor...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
M. de Gruyter,
1996.
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Colección: | Studies on language acquisition ;
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter; Contents; Introduction; Investigating the production of speech act sets; Non-native refusals: A methodological perspective; Natural speech act data versus written questionnaire data: How data collection method affects speech act performance; Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English; Egyptian and Anterican contplintents: Focus on second language learners; Politeness strategies in French and English; Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing; My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining
- Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech act analysis: The case of complaints Frolll the addressee's perspective: Illlposition in favor-asking; Transfer of pragmatic competence and suggestions in Spanish foreign language learning; Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U.S., Japan, China, and Korea; Culture, negotiations and international cooperative ventures; Back matter