| Description |
vi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
10. The Metapragmatic Discourse of American-Israeli Families at Dinner / Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Hadass Sheffer. 11. Notes on the Interlanguage of Comity / Guy Aston |
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: An Introduction / Gabriele Kasper and Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- I. Cognitive Approaches to Interlanguage Pragmatic Development. 1. Consciousness, Learning, and Interlanguage Pragmatics / Richard Schmidt. 2. Symbolic Representation and Attentional Control in Pragmatic Competence / Ellen Bialystok -- II. Speech Act Realization. 3. Expressing Gratitude in American English / Miriam Eisenstein and Jean Bodman. 4. Perception and Performance in Native and Nonnative Apology / Marc L. Bergman and Gabriele Kasper. 5. Interlanguage Features of the Speech Act of Complaining / Elite Olshtain and Liora Weinbach. 6. Interlanguage Requestive Hints / Elda Weizman. 7. Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Speech Act of Correction / Tomoko Takahashi and Leslie M. Beebe -- III. Discourse Perspectives. 8. Toward a Model for the Analysis of Inappropriate Responses in Native/Nonnative Interactions / Juliane House. 9. Explaining NNS Interactional Behavior: The Effect of Conversational Topic / Jane Zuengler |
| Summary |
As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. A collection of previously unpublished essays by sixteen distinguished linguists, Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, discussing from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book is divided into three sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editors that provides relevant theoretical and methodological background. The first section concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development. The second addresses interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts. The final section is devoted to discoursal perspectives on interlanguage. With an editors' general introduction that offers a critical overview of the issues currently being debated, this book is the first to exclusively address the pragmatic dimension in second language acquisition, presenting a state-of-the-art view of the field and outlining directions for future research |
| Analysis |
Language Learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to EBL (Ebook Library) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Interlanguage (Language learning)
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Pragmatics.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| Author |
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana.
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Kasper, Gabriele.
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| LC no. |
92034791 |
| ISBN |
0195066022 (alk. paper) |
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