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OverviewThis book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period. The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have influenced the direction and the extent of the learners’ pragmatic development. It also sheds light on the language-acquisition strategies utilised by the learners during their tenure in the host culture. Most crucially, the book illuminates patterns of directness and indirectness in the learners’ selected disagreement strategies. These patterns challenge the generally accepted theory that politeness always increases with social distance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian Walkinshaw , Graeme Davis , Karl A BernhardtPublisher: Verlag Peter Lang Imprint: Verlag Peter Lang Edition: New edition Volume: 24 Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9783039115273ISBN 10: 3039115278 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 04 February 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Japanese learners of English – Disagreement speech acts – Theories of politeness – Face-threat – Individualism and collectivism – Power distance – Second language/Culture acquisition – Shifts in production of disagreements – Utterance length – Shifts in recognising and interpreting disagreements – Enryo-based assessments of pragmatic variation – Power-risk assessments of pragmatic variation – Environmental and pedagogical factors influencing pragmatic acquisition.ReviewsThis is an original, meticulously structured and well-written longitudinal study. It makes a valid contribution to the development of pragmatic competence - an area where very little research exists. (Professor Dr Juliane House, University of Hamburg) Author InformationThe Author: Ian Walkinshaw has an M.A. in TES/FL from the University of Birmingham, UK, and a Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. His research interests are cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics, second language acquisition and ELT methodology. He has been involved in English language teaching in New Zealand, Japan, Britain and Vietnam, where he currently works as an EFL teacher, teacher-trainer and curriculum designer. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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