Contrastive pragmatics / edited by Wieslaw Oleksy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oleksy, Wieslaw.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 3.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interlanguage (Language learning).

Pragmatics.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium comparationis and its place in the development of contrastive studies as well as the applicability of generalizations proposed by speech-act theorists in contrasting concrete languages and cultures. The second part tackles a number of pragmatic issues involved in second-language learners' written productions, classroom discourse, as well as more general questions pertaining to pragmatic errors and learners' interlanguage. An Index of terms and an Index of names complete the volume.

Contents:

CONTRASTIVE PRAGMATICS

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

REFERENCES

List of contributors

1: PRAGMATICS IN CROSS-LANGUAGE STUDIES

The ethnography of English compliments and compliment responses: a contrastive sketch

1. INTRODUCTION

2. COMPLIMENTS AND COMPLIMENT RESPONSES

3. DATA: PRELIMINARIES

3.1 Analysis

3.2 American data

3.2.1 Agreements

3.2.2 Nonagreements

3.2.3 Request Interpretation

3.2.4 Frequency and Relationship Analysis

3.3 South African Data

3.4 Discussion

4. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

5. SUMMARY

NOTES

On representatives* as a class of illocutionary acts

1. SEARLE'S CHARACTERIZATION OF REPRESENTATIVES AND CRITICISMS

2. TWO ASPECTS OF TRUTH AND THE CONSEQUENCES STEMMING FROM THAT DISTINCTION

3. SCALAR ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVES

4. A PROTOTYPE ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVES IN ENGLISH AND POLISH

5. IS IT INTERESTING TO COMPARE TYPES OF ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS IN TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES?

Towards a typology of contrastive studies

2. SOME TERMINOLOGICAL ISSUES

3. EXTERNAL &amp

INTERNAL PRINCIPLES OF TAXONOMY

4. TEXT-BOUND CS

5. SYSTEMATIC CS

6. IMMEDIATELY RELEVANT TCs VS. ULTIMATELY RELE-VANT TCs

7. CONCLUSIONS

Praising and complimenting

2. SOCIAL AND LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING ACTS

3. ILLOCUTIONARY STRUCTURE OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING

4. LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF PRAISING AND COMPLIMENTING (POLISH)

4.1 Indirectness

5. PRAISING/COMPLIMENTING AND DISCOURSE ORGANIZATION

5.1 Discourse consequences

5.2 Pre-acts

6. ENGLISH DATA COMPARED

7. CONCLUSION

Interactive ethnolinguistics

1. INTRODUCTION.

2. CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS AS APPLIED TO THE ANALYSIS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

3. MAXIMS AND POLITENESS

4. CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMPLES: WESTERN APACHE AND (AMERICAN) ENGLISH SPEAKERS

5. CONCLUSIONS

The impact of the child's world on pairing form and function in Antiguan Creole and English

2. FORM AND FUNCTION

2.1 Form - Function Pairing

2.2 Form, Function, and the Expression of Modality

2.3 The Child's Approach

3. THE DATA

3.1 Antiguan Creole

3.2 Standard American English

4. CROSSCULTURAL COMPARISON

II: PRAGMATICS IN INTERLANGUAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STUDIES

Collocational blends of advanced second language learners: a preliminary analysis

1. THE PROBLEM

2. THE CASE

2.1 Topic

2.2 Text

2.3 Blends

2.4 Analysis of text

2.4.1 Statement 1

2.4.2 Statement 2

2.4.3 Statement 3

2.4.4 Statement 4

2.4.5 Statement 5

2.4.6 Statement 6

2.4.6 Statement 7

2.4.8 Statement 8

2.4.9 Statement 9

2.4.10 Statement 10

2.4.11 Statement 11

2.4.12 Statement 12

2.5 Discussion

3. A TENTATIVE CATEGORIZATION

3.1 Intra-clausal blends

3.1.1 Prepositional phrases

3.1.3 A djective complementation

3.1.2 Verb complementation

3.1.4 Noun phrases

3.2 Supra-clausal blends

4. RESUME

BIBLIOGRAPHY

On describing and analyzing foreign language classroom discourse

2. CHARACTERISTICS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE

2.1 Correctness of content and correctness of language

2.2 Ambiguous utterances in discourse

3. ON THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE

4. A MODEL OF ANALYSIS

4.1 Acts

4.2 Moves

4.3 Exchanges

4.4 Transactions

4.5 Didactic units

5. CONCLUSION

REFERENCES.

Interactive procedures in interlanguage discourse

2. OPENING AND CLOSING DISCOURSE

2.1 Openings in non-educational discourse

2.2 Openings in educational discourse

2.3 Closing in non-educational discourse

2.4 Closings in educational discourse

3. DISCOURSE REGULATION

3.1 Discourse regulation in non-educational discourse

3.2 Discourse regulation in educational discourse

4. CONCLUSION

Well don't blame me! On the interpretation of pragmatic errors

1. BACKGROUND

2. CATEGORIES OF PRAGMATIC ERROR

2.1 Examples of pragmalinguistic failure:

2.2 Examples of sociopragmatic failure:

3. A SCHEMATISATION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF PRAGMATIC ERRORS

3.1 Communicative strategies

3.2 Perception of situation

3.2.1 Background knowledge

3.2.2 Communicative context

3.2.3 The spatio-temporal setting

3.3 Errors in (inter)action

Coexisting discourse worlds and the study of pragmatic aspects of learners' interlanguage

2. THE SITUATIONAL FRAME, DISCOURSE WORLDS, AND LEARNER DATA

3. WORLD SWITCHING IN ROLE ENACTMENTS

4. CONCLUDING REMARKS

Indexof terms and authors

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-04726-8

9786613047267

90-272-8610-8

OCLC:

709596548