Developing Contrastive Pragmatics

by Putz, Martin

• ISBN13: 9783110196702
• ISBN10: 3110196700
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.

Table of Contents

Developing contrastive pragmatics
Intercultural pragmatics and discourse markers
A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding	p. 3
Sociocultural conceptualizations : schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German	p. 47
An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar : cultural scripts in contrast	p. 67
Argumentation patterns in different languages : an analysis of metadiscourse markers in English and Spanish texts	p. 87
The management of global cultural diversity in ELT materials	p. 103
Interlanguage pragmatics : strategies and identity in the foreign language classroom
Reframing one's experience : face, identity and roles in L2 argumentative discourse	p. 131
Indirect complaint in the language classroom : cross-cultural contrasts between French and Japanese students of English	p. 155
"We make such a mishmash" : bilingual usage in classroom peer group talk	p. 181
Pragmatics of humor in the foreign language classroom : learning (with) humor	p. 209
Development of pragmatic competence in foreign language learning : focus on "requests"
Interlanguage requests : a comparative study	p. 231
Development of requests : a study on Turkish learners on English	p. 265
Perceived pragmatic transferability of L1 request strategies by Persian learners of English	p. 301
Dutch English requests : a study of request performance by Dutch learners of English	p. 335
Contrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes : a study in variational pragmatics	p. 355
Getting better in getting what you want : language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns	p. 403
Index	p. 433
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