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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Language In Social Life |
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Language In Social Life
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Background to the understanding project; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Background to this study; 1.2 Informants; 1.3 Data; 2.A social perspective on understanding: some issues of theory and method; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Identifying understanding and problems ofunderstanding; 2.2 Understanding and interaction; 2.3 Understanding and context; 2.4 Data analysis; General and social knowledge; Conversation analysis; Ethnographic evidence; 2.5 Issues of variability |
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3. Causes of understanding problems3.0 Introduction; Possible ways of analysing causes; How do we decide what the causes are?; 'Unidentifiable' causes and the limits of analysis; 3.1 Understanding problems triggered by a single, identifiable element; Lexical comprehension problems; Misunderstanding caused by 'mishearing' a lexical element; 3.2 Understanding problems caused by relative degreeof difficulty; The way of putting it: structural complexity andellipsis as complementary sources of difficulty; Content of the utterance |
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3.3 Understanding problems caused by indirectness andimplicit discourse norms4. Managing understanding from a minority perspective; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 The types of problems with understanding; 4.2 Options the minority interactant can take: avoidingor indicating the problem with understanding; Avoiding; Indicating; 4.3 Managing procedures for indicatingnon-understanding; A typical sequence; Problems of analysis; A continuum of procedures; Implicit, indirect procedures; Intermediate procedures; Direct and explicit procedures; 4.4 Face and the management of understanding |
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Non-understanding, face-loss and consequencesMetamessage; Accommodation, over-accommodation; Resistance; 4.5 Potential for learning; 4.6 Conclusion; 5. Case Studies: the making of understanding in extended interactions; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Berta (Spanish-French); 5.2 Tino (Italian-German); 5.3 Ergün (Turkish-Dutch); 5.4 Santo (Italian-English); 6. Preventing problems of understanding; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 Some options to prevent non-understanding; Fostering chances for participation; Raising the right expectations; Raising the transparency of one's own speech |
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6.2 Resolving or ignoring problems of understanding:the interviewer's point of view7. Joint negotiation of understanding: procedures for managing problems of understanding; 7.0 Introduction; 7.1 Clarification following unspecific indication or'symptoms' of non-understanding; Reformulation: a multifunctional procedure; Reformulations changing the linguistic surfaceof the original utterance; Reformulations aiming at a 'narrower'question; More than a reformulation: 'fresh start'; 7.2 Clarification following specific indication:explication of lexical meaning |
| Summary |
This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research |
| Notes |
7.3 Maximal use of procedures -an example |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication -- Europe
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Second language acquisition.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Intercultural communication
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Second language acquisition
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Roberts, Celia
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| ISBN |
9781317896418 |
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1317896416 |
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