Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning How to do Things with Words in a Study Abroad Context

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Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production questionnaires and a variety of metapragmatic instruments. The analysis focuses on developments in these learners’ knowledge of discourse structure, pragmatic routines and internal modification. Findings present valuable information pertaining to the process of acquisition of pragmatic competence. They also point to the favourable but imperfect nature of the study abroad context for the development of pragmatic competence. A comprehensive discussion of theoretical and methodological issues, an in-depth analysis and an extensive bibliography make this book of interest to both researchers and students in interlanguage pragmatics, cross-cultural pragmatics, German as a foreign language and study abroad research.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAmsterdam/Philadelphia
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Number of pages412
ISBN (Print)978-1-588-11342-9
ISBN (Electronic)9789027296665
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Publication statusPublished - 28.04.2003
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NamePragmatics & Beyond New Series
PublisherAnita Fetzer
No.108
ISSN (Print)0922-842X

    Research areas

  • English - Germanic linguistics, Language acquisition, English linguistics, Pragmatics

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