Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] Book 31)

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.--jacket. Edited By Martin Pütz, Joanne Neff-van Aertselaer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Frontmatter Contents Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding Sociocultural conceptualizations: Schemas and metaphorical transfer as metalinguistic learning strategies for French learners of German An investigation into the pragmatics of grammar: Cultural scripts in contrast Argumentation patterns in different languages: An analysis of metadiscourse markers in English and Spanish texts The management of global cultural diversity in ELT materials Reframing one's experience: Face, identity and roles in L2 argumentative discourse Indirect complaint in the language classroom: Cross-cultural contrasts between French and Japanese students of English "We make such a mishmash": Bilingual language usage in classroom peer group talk Pragmatics of humor in the foreign language classroom: Learning (with) humor Interlanguage requests: A contrastive study Development of requests: A study on Turkish learners of English Perceived pragmatic transferability o f L1 request strategies by Persian learners of English Dutch English requests: A study of request performance by Dutch learners of English Contrasting requests in Inner Circle Englishes: A study in variational pragmatics Getting better in getting what you want: Language learners' pragmatic development in requests during study abroad sojourns Backmatter

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.