Interlanguage Request Modification (pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis /
2012 / English / PDF
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This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to
interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical
studies carried out by an international array of scholars which
provides insights for researchers, graduate students and language
teachers on patterns of interlanguage request modification in a
range of research contexts and linguistic/cultural settings. The
research in this volume takes the reader from a consideration of
interlanguage request modification in naturally-occurring e-mail
data, through to elicited data from e-DCT questionnaires on
cyber-consultations, to the interactive oral discourse of requests
in open role-plays. As a whole, the contributions incorporate
research with learners from a range of proficiency levels and from
diverse linguistic/cultural backgrounds while the chapters
individually examine developmental aspects of interlanguage request
modification, requests in electronic contexts, comparative
learner/native speaker requests, and instructional effects on
mitigation. The book will undoubtedly become an important reference
for researchers and teachers not only in the field of pragmatics
but also in second language acquisition, language teaching,
(socio-)linguistics and discourse analysis.
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to
interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical
studies carried out by an international array of scholars which
provides insights for researchers, graduate students and language
teachers on patterns of interlanguage request modification in a
range of research contexts and linguistic/cultural settings. The
research in this volume takes the reader from a consideration of
interlanguage request modification in naturally-occurring e-mail
data, through to elicited data from e-DCT questionnaires on
cyber-consultations, to the interactive oral discourse of requests
in open role-plays. As a whole, the contributions incorporate
research with learners from a range of proficiency levels and from
diverse linguistic/cultural backgrounds while the chapters
individually examine developmental aspects of interlanguage request
modification, requests in electronic contexts, comparative
learner/native speaker requests, and instructional effects on
mitigation. The book will undoubtedly become an important reference
for researchers and teachers not only in the field of pragmatics
but also in second language acquisition, language teaching,
(socio-)linguistics and discourse analysis.