Interlanguage Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Gabriele Kasper, Shoshana Blum-Kulka

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, documenting from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book consists of three sections. The first concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development; the second, interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts; and the third, discoursal perspectives on interlanguage. Each section is prefaced by an introduction by the editors which provides relevant theoretical and methodological background. The editors' general introduction offers a critical overview of the issues currently debated. This book is the first to exclusively address the pragmatic dimension in second language acquistion, presenting a state-of-the-art view of the field and outlining directions for future research.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Interlanguage Pragmatics: An Introduction......Page 10
I: Cognitive Approaches to Interlanguage Pragmatic Development......Page 26
1 Consciousness, Learning, and Interlanguage Pragmatics......Page 28
2 Symbolic Representation and Attentional Control in Pragmatic Competence......Page 50
II: Speech Act Realization......Page 66
3 Expressing Gratitude in American English......Page 71
4 Perception and Performance in Native and Nonnative Apology......Page 89
5 Interlanguage Features of the Speech Act of Complaining......Page 115
6 Interlanguage Requestive Hints......Page 130
7 Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Speech Act of Correction......Page 145
III: Discourse Perspectives......Page 166
8 Toward a Model for the Analysis of Inappropriate Responses in Native/Nonnative Interactions......Page 168
9 Explaining NNS Interactional Behavior: The Effect of Conversational Topic......Page 191
10 The Metapragmatic Discourse of American-Israeli Families at Dinner......Page 203
11 Notes on the Interlanguage of Comity......Page 231
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 258

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прагмалингвистика;