Developing contrastive pragmatics [[electronic resource] ] : interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives / / edited by Martin Putz, JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Pragmatics; Intercultural communication; Interlanguage (Language learning); Second language acquisition
• Soggetto non controllato: Pragmatics; minority languages; multilingualism; second language acquisition
• Altri autori: PützMartin <1955-> Neff-van AertselaerJoAnne
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics -- Section 1: Intercultural Pragmatics and Discourse Markers -- 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 -- Section 2: Interlanguage Pragmatics: Strategies and Identity in the Foreign Language Classroom -- Reframing one's experience: Face, identity and roles in L2 argumentative discourse -- Indirect 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 -- Section 3: Development of Pragmatic Competence in Foreign Language Learning: Focus on "Requests" -- 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 English -- Contrasting 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as min
• Titolo autorizzato: Developing contrastive pragmatics
• ISBN: 1-282-19678-2; 9786612196782; 3-11-020721-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782780703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies on language acquisition ; ; 31.