The Pragmatics Of Requests And Apologies

Author : Elizabeth Flores Salgado
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285039
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies written by Elizabeth Flores Salgado and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency levels were asked to respond in English to 24 different situations that called for the speech acts of request and apology. Results showed three important aspects. The first finding suggested that basic adult learners possess a pragmatic knowledge in their L1 that allows them to focus on the intended meaning and, in most cases, to assemble an utterance that conveys a pragmatic intention and satisfies the communicative demands of a social situation. The second finding revealed that there are two essential conditions to communicate a linguistic action: the knowledge of the relevant linguistic rules and the knowledge of how to use them appropriately and effectively in a specific context. The findings further suggested that advanced learners possess the grammatical knowledge to produce an illocutionary act, but they need to learn the specific L2 pragmatic conventions that enable them to know when to use these grammatical forms and under which circumstances.

Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311088528X
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interlanguage Pragmatics written by Anna Trosborg and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints and Apologies (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics).

Author : Juliane House
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108960030
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Pragmatics written by Juliane House and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics is relevant for a variety of fields, such as pragmatics, applied linguistics, language learning and teaching, translation, intercultural communication and sociolinguistics. Written by two leading scholars in the field, this book offers an accessible overview of cross-cultural pragmatics, by providing insights into the theory and practice of systematically comparing language use in different cultural contexts. The authors provide a ground-breaking, language-anchored, strictly empirical and replicable framework applicable for the study of different datatypes and situations. The framework is illustrated with case studies drawn from a variety of linguacultures, such as English, Chinese, Japanese and German. In these case studies, the reader is provided with contrastive analyses of language use in important contexts such as globalised business, politics and classrooms. This book is essential reading for both academics and students.

Author : Rosina Márquez-Reiter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027251022
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay written by Rosina Márquez-Reiter and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures. Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.

Author : Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Publisher : Ablex Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780318364162
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-cultural Pragmatics written by Shoshana Blum-Kulka and published by Ablex Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Milica Savic
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443858579
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals written by Milica Savic and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges that EFL learners, teachers and teacher educators are facing today have increased considerably with the comparatively new role of English as the lingua franca of the modern world. For both learners and teachers, responding to these new demands involves mastering a broader set of communication skills and a wider range of competencies in English, L2 pragmatic competence being only one of them, albeit an extremely significant one. With this in mind, Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals explores various aspects of Serbian EFL learners’ (future EFL teachers’) pragmatic knowledge and metapragmatic awareness, both as elements of their communicative competence and as tools they can use to support their own students’ L2 pragmatic development. In addition to examining the language strategies they resort to in different communicative contexts and the reasoning behind their speech act strategy choice, this book also investigates the use of intonation to express and interpret pragmatic meanings. As one of the first steps towards assembling the complex jigsaw puzzle representing the pragmatic competence of Serbian learners of English, the book will be of considerable interest to researchers investigating aspects of L2 pragmatics in the speech of EFL learners, especially those with Slavic L1 backgrounds. Additionally, in offering an insight into the numerous challenges that future language professionals, including EFL teachers, face in the process of mastering L2 speech acts, the book will also be relevant to university EFL lecturers and teacher trainers.

Author : Ulla Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521446880
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contrastive Rhetoric written by Ulla Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how a person's first language and culture influence writing in a second language.

Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195341384
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pragmatics of Politeness written by Geoffrey N. Leech and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.

Author : Nicola Halenko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350097152
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Pragmatics and Instructed Second Language Learning written by Nicola Halenko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores second language pragmatic development with a specific focus on two areas: classroom-based pragmatic instruction in the study abroad context, and using technology for developing and assessing pragmatic competence. Teaching Pragmatics and Instructed Second Language Learning directly compares the effects of technology platforms and traditional paper-based tasks within the second language environment for developing pragmatic competence. These analyses are based on empirical research of how undergraduate Chinese learners of English receive explicit instruction in classrooms using different training materials. The book makes an original and innovative contribution to collecting oral speech act data in the form of computer-animated production tasks (CAPT) designed to enhance learner engagement and performance. Using this tool, it explores the beneficial role of technology in teaching and learning, offering practitioners and researchers practical ways to maximise second language pragmatic development in the classroom.

Author : Sara Gesuato
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883328
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching, Learning and Investigating Pragmatics written by Sara Gesuato and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of research papers investigating how to foster the learning and teaching of pragmatic phenomena, as well as how to administer tests that assess pragmatic competence in second/foreign language education with regards to several target languages. The topics investigated include: speech acts; computer-mediated communication; conversation analysis; pragmatic, intercultural, and emotional competence; native and non-native performance; data collection and instructional methods; needs analysis; and syllabus design and materials development. The contributions will be of particular interest to linguists, language learners and teachers, teacher trainers, and communication experts.