Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Studies on Language Acquisition)

✍ Scribed by Pütz, Martin

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 minority issues in multilingual settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics......Page 9
A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and
world-wide understanding......Page 21
Sociocultural conceptualizations: Schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German
......Page 65
An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar:
Cultural scripts in contrast......Page 85
Argumentation patterns in different languages: An analysis of metadiscourse markers in English
and Spanish texts......Page 105
The management of global cultural diversity in
ELT materials......Page 121
Reframing one's experience: Face, identity and
roles in L2 argumentative discourse......Page 149
Indirect complaint in the language classroom: Cross-cultural contrasts between French and
Japanese students of English......Page 173
"We make such a mishmash": Bilingual language usage in classroom peer group
talk......Page 199
Pragmatics of humor in the foreign language
classroom: Learning (with) humor......Page 227
Interlanguage requests: A
contrastive study......Page 249
Development of requests:
A study on Turkish learners of English......Page 283
Perceived pragmatic transferability o f L1 request
strategies by Persian learners of English......Page 319
Dutch English requests: A study of request
performance by Dutch learners of English......Page 353
Contrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes:
A study in variational pragmatics......Page 373
Getting better in getting what you want:
Language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns......Page 421
Backmatter
......Page 451