1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779051503321

Autore

Taguchi Naoko <1967->

Titolo

Context, individual differences and pragmatic competence [[electronic resource] /] / Naoko Taguchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2012

ISBN

1-84769-611-2

1-280-12090-8

9786613524768

1-84769-610-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Second language acquisition ; ; [62]

Disciplina

428.0071/052

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Japan

Pragmatics

Communicative competence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Development: An Introduction -- 2. Longitudinal Studies in Interlanguage Pragmatics -- 3. Theoretical Framework, Research Questions and Methodology of the Study -- 4. Patterns and Rate of Pragmatic Development -- 5. Individual Differences in Pragmatic Development -- 6. Summary and Conclusion -- Appendix A: Language Contact Profile (LCP) -- Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics of LCP Results -- Appendix C: Pragmatic Listening Test (PLT) Items -- Appendix D: Pragmatic Speaking Test (PST) Situational Scenarios -- Appendix E: Evaluation of Speech Acts: Grammar Rating Scale -- Appendix F: Evaluation of Speech Acts: Appropriateness Rating Scale -- Appendix G: Grammar Test for Target Pragmalinguistic Features -- Appendix H: Coding Frameworks for Speech Act Expressions -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural



stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464072003321

Autore

Michaud Jean <1957->

Titolo

'Incidental' ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930 / / by Jean Michaud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherland ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-283-06024-8

9786613060242

90-474-2021-7

90-04-13996-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christian mission, , 0924-9389 ; ; v. 33

Disciplina

266/.2597

Soggetti

Missions, French - Vietnam

Ethnology

Vietnam, Northern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Setting the scene -- pt. 2. Colonial ethnography and the French heritage -- pt. 3. Upper Tonkin -- pt. 4. Missionary authors and their texts.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian



massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are paid special attention, notably through its major contributor, F.M. Savina. The author locates this ethnographic heritage against its historical, political and intellectual background. A comparison is conducted with French missionaries-cum-ethnographers who worked among the 'natives' in New France (Canada) in the 17th century, yielding the unexpected conclusion that practically nothing from this early period of experimentation was remembered.