Speech acts across cultures : challenges to communication in a second language / Susan M. Gass and Joyce Neu, editors.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies on language acquisition ; 11.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1996Description: vi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 3110140829
- 9783110140828
- 303.482 20
- P118.2 .S67 1996
- Also issued online.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English -- Egyptian and American compliments: 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 -- From the addressee's perspective: Imposition in favor-asking -- Transfer of pragmatic competence and suggestions in Spanish foreign language learning -- Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U.S., Japan, China and Korea -- Culture, negotiations and international cooperative ventures -- Subject index -- Author index.
Also issued online.
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