Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Volume 1: Discourse and Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Susan Gass, Carolyn Madden, Dennis Preston and Larry Selinker (Editors)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, Limited
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Series: Multilingual Matters, 49
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These volumes present a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields - quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies - which expose the richness of approaches represented in the volumes. A generalized view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- and psycho-linguistic issues emerges, enabling the reader to see more directly the relevance of second language acquisition studies to the central questions of language.