Wang Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8680-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 207, 215 Seiten

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A range of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Vincent X.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

ix
List of tables

xi–xii
List of abbreviations

xiii
Acknowledgements

xv
1. Introduction

1–7
2. Interlanguage pragmatics: A critical review

9–51
3. Method

53–66
4. Strategy use

67–87
5. Formulaic expressions

89–111
6. Internal modifications

113–123
7. External modifications and utterance length

125–135
8. How Chinese EFL learners make requests: Overall pattern & implications

137–162
9. Conclusion

163–168
Notes

169
References

171–182
Appendix 1. The discourse completion tasks

183–187
Appendix 2. Strategy types by scenario

189
Appendix 3. Formulaic expressions by scenario

191–195
Index

197–199