Pragmatic transfer and development : evidence from EFL learners in China / Wei Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Wei (Language specialist), 1966- author.

Series:

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 287

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Chinese speakers.

English language.

Pragmatics.

Interlanguage (Language learning).

English language--Foreign countries.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as pragmatic transfer, which may cause misunderstandings and lead to cross-cultural communication breakdown. This book examines pragmatic transfer by Chinese learners of English at different proficiency levels when writing email requests and refusals. To meet the need for developmental research in L2 pragmatics, it also explores whether pragmatic transfer increases or decreases as language proficiency improves. This book will appeal to researchers and students in interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, English as a second/foreign language, and intercultural communication.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of tables

List of figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Literature review

Chapter 3. Methodology

Chapter 4. Results

Chapter 5. Results

Chapter 6. Discussion and conclusion

Appendices

Appendix A. Email production questionnaires

Appendix B. Frequency of external modifiers in requests

Appendix C. Frequency of external modifiers in refusals

References

Name index

Subject index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 5, 2018).