Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning How to do Things with Words in a Study Abroad Context
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. 412 p. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series; No. 108).
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics
T2 - Learning How to do Things with Words in a Study Abroad Context
AU - Barron, Anne
PY - 2003/4/28
Y1 - 2003/4/28
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - English
KW - Germanic linguistics
KW - Language acquisition
KW - English linguistics
KW - Pragmatics
U2 - 10.1075/pbns.108
DO - 10.1075/pbns.108
M3 - Monographs
SN - 978-1-588-11342-9
T3 - Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
BT - Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia
ER -