Speech Acts Across Cultures : : Challenges to Communication in a Second Language /

Speech Acts Across Cultures : : Challenges to Communication in a Second Language / / ed. by Susan Gass, Joyce Neu.

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This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech acts are realized from culture to culture in different ways and that these differences may result in communication difficulties that range from the humoro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bakary, Waguida,
Batal, Mahmoud,
Beebe, Leslie M.,
Bodman, Jean W.,
Boxer, Diana,
Carpenter, Mary,
Clark Cummings, Martha,
Cohen, Andrew,
Eistenstein Ebsworth, Miriam,
Gass, Susan M.,
Geis, Michael L.,
Goldschmidt, Myra,
Graham, John L.,
Harlow, Linda L.,
Houck, Noel,
Jeong, Hy-sook,
Kasper, Gabriele,
Koike, Dale April,
Maeshiba, Naoko,
Murphy, Beth,
Nelson, Gayle L.,
Neu, Joyce,
Ross, Steven,
Schmidt, Richard,
Shimura, Akihiko,
Wang, Zhigang,
Yoshinaga, Naoko,
HerausgeberIn:
Gass, Susan,
Neu, Joyce,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Methodological issues
  • Investigating the production of speech act sets
  • Non-native refusals: A methodological perspective
  • Natural speech act data versus written questionnaire data: How data collection method affects speech act performance
  • Part II. Speech acts in a second language
  • Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English
  • Egyptian and Anterican contplintents: Focus on second language learners
  • Politeness strategies in French and English
  • Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing
  • My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining
  • Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech act analysis: The case of complaints
  • Frolll the addressee's perspective: Illlposition in favor-asking
  • Transfer of pragmatic competence and suggestions in Spanish foreign language learning
  • Part III. Applications
  • Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U. S., Japan, China, and Korea
  • Culture, negotiations and international cooperative ventures
  • Backmatter

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