Learning to Request in a Second Language: A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Machiko Achiba

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 235
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a Japanese girl during her residence in Australia. It focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she makes requests and varies these to suit different goals and addressees. It helps unravel features of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Tables, Figures and Appendices
Summary
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. A Review of the Literature
Chapter 3. Methodology
Chapter 4. Development of Request Realisation
Chapter 5. Requestive Hints
Chapter 6. Variation in Use: Request Goals
Chapter 7. Variation in Use: Addresses
Chapter 8. Modification
Chapter 9. Summary and Conclusions
References
Appendices
Index

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