Acquisition in interlanguage pragmatics : learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context / Anne Barron.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Barron, Anne.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 108.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition.

Pragmatics.

Interlanguage (Language learning).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. A pragmatic approach

Chapter 3. Acquisitional issues in learner pragmatics

Chapter 4. Experimental design

Chapter 5. A pragmatic analysis

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Notes

References

Appendix

Name index

Subject index

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat Hamburg, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161346

9781282161344

1282161342

9789027296665

9027296669

OCLC:

55638515