Learning to request in a second language : a study of child interlanguage pragmatics / Machiko Achiba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Achiba, Machiko.

Series:

Second language acquisition ; 2.

Second language acquisition ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

English language--Acquisition.

English language.

Interlanguage (Language learning).

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2003]

Contents:

1.1 Interlanguage Pragmatics in Second Language Acquisition Research 1

1.2 Speech Acts 2

2.1 Defining Requests 5

2.2 Direct Strategies, Conventionally Indirect Strategies and Nonconventionally Indirect Strategies 7

2.3 Studies in L2 Request Realisation 10

2.4 The Development of Request Realisation in L1 English-speaking Children 15

2.5 Variation in Relation to Goal 24

3.1 The Longitudinal Case Study 27

3.2 The Subject 28

3.3 Data Collection Procedures 29

3.4 Data Sets 32

3.5 Defining Requests 32

3.6 Units for Analysis 33

3.7 Identifying Requests 33

3.8 Classification of Strategies 35

4 Development of Request Realisation 42

4.1 Procedures for Analysis 43

5 Requestive Hints 74

5.1 Identifying Hints in Context 74

6 Variation in Use: Request Goals 93

6.1 Types of Request Goal 93

6.2 The Distribution of Request Goals 95

6.3 The Choice of Strategy Types 96

6.4 The Choice of Strategy Types Over Time 105

6.5 Request Perspectives 112

7 Variation in Use: Addresses 120

7.1 Requests with Varying Addressees 120

8 Modification 131

8.1 Categories of Modification 132

8.2 Analysis 141

9.1 A Child Second Language Learner's Request Realisation 172

9.2 Variation According to Goal 174

9.3 Variation According to Addressee 175

9.4 A Developmental Profile 178

9.5 Constraints on Variation in Request Forms According to Addressee 184

9.6 Is One Kind of Data Enough? 186

9.7 How Far Did Yao Get? 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.

ISBN:

1853596124

OCLC:

50041617