Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Martin Pütz (editor); JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; 31
• 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
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 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
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