18.1239, Books: Pragmatics: Kraft, Geluykens (Eds)

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Date: 23-Apr-2007
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Interlanguage English: Kraft,
Geluykens (Eds)

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:16:53
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Interlanguage English: Kraft, Geluykens (Eds) 

Title: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Interlanguage English 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in English Linguistics 11  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.eu

Editor: Bettina Kraft
Editor: Ronald Geluykens

Paperback: ISBN: 9783895867767 Pages: 260 Price: Europe EURO 74.00

Abstract:

In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing body of research in the
field of cross-cultural pragmatics. The present collection of papers
focusses on the pragmatics of interlanguage English, a focus which is
justified by the growing importance of English as a global lingua franca as
well as by the fact that, in cross-cultural contexts, English is now
predominantly used by EFL or interlanguage users rather than by native
speakers. A lot of work in interlanguage pragmatics has traditionally been
speech act based; some of the papers in this volume follow this tradition
and examine the realisation of speech acts such as requests, apologies, and
complaints. Others investigate the use of interlanguage English (and, in a
few cases, French) in a variety of interactional contexts. Such contexts
include controlled elicitation procedures (e.g. interviews, role plays) as
well as spontaneous conversational interactions.

In short, the collection explores a variety of data collection methods as
well as examining a wide range of linguistic phenomena in the field of
interlanguage pragmatics (intonation, coherence devices, word order, speech
acts). Additionally, a number of methodologies are employed in the various
papers (relevance theory, conversation analysis, speech act theory).

This book thus offers a representative overview of the current 'state of
the art' in cross-cultural pragmatics in general, and the pragmatics of
interlanguage English in particular.

Part I: Theoretical Background
Chapter 1: Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics: The State of the
Art Bettina Kraft and Ronald Geluykens
Chapter 2: Integrating Relevance: An Evaluation of Theoretical Accounts for
the Acquisition of Pragmatic Abilities in a Second Language Beatriz De
Paiva (Heriot Watt University)

Part II: Speech Acts and Interlanguage
Chapter 3: Upgrading and Downgrading in English Interlanguage Complaints
Ronald Geluykens (University of Oldenburg) & Bettina Kraft (University of
Southampton)
Chapter 4: Gender-Based Differences in English Apology Realisations Eva
Ogiermann (University of Oldenburg)
Chapter 5: The Development of Foreign Language Learners' Supportive Moves
in Requests Muriel Warga, (University of Graz)
Chapter 6: Requests in American and British English: A Contrastive
Cross-Cultural Analysis Anja Breuer (University of Muenster) & Ronald
Geluykens (University of Oldenburg)

Part III: Interlanguage and Discourse
Chapter 7: Discourse Patterns in Intercultural Conversations Winnie Cheng
(Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Chapter 8: Intensifiers in the Responses of Native and Non-Native Speakers
to Evaluating Questions Aart Pouw (University of Groningen)
Chapter 9: On Research Methodology in Interlanguage Pragmatics: The Case of
Marked Word Order Marcus Callies (University of Marburg)
Chapter 10: Coherence Devices in the Englishes of Speakers in the Expanding
Circle Christiane Meierkord (University of Muenster)
Chapter 11: Tone Choice in the English Intonation of Finns Juhani Toivanen
(University of Oulu). 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)

Written In: English  (eng)

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