High-Level Language Proficiency in Second Language and Multilingual Contexts
High-Level Language Proficiency in Second Language and Multilingual Contexts

Author: Kenneth Hyltenstam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-06-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1316812030

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The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguistic/structural; psycholinguistic/cognitive and sociolinguistic/societal. Bringing together a team of experts, this volume takes a novel empirical approach to the subject combined with an up-to-date understanding of these research areas, to answer two important research questions in the field of second language acquisition: what conditions allow learners to attain an outstanding level of proficiency in a second language, and what factors still prevent them from becoming entirely like first language speakers. Looking at a range of European languages including English, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, it provides important insights into second language use at the highest levels as well as in high-proficient mixed language use in multicultural settings. A useful tool for both language teaching and language teacher training, it provides a solid grounding for further study in this important area of research.

Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices
Global Perspectives on Youth Language Practices

Author: Cynthia Groff

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1501514687

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Most journal articles, edited volumes and monographs on youth language practices deal with one specific variety, one geographical setting, or with one specific continent. This volume bridges these different studies, and it approaches youth language from a much broader angle. A global framework and a diversity of methodologies enable a wider perspective that gives room to comparisons of youth’s manipulations and linguistic agency, transnational communicative practices and language contact scenarios. The research presented addresses structural features of everyday talk and text, youth identity issues related to specific purposes and contexts, and sociocultural emphases on ideologies and belonging. Combining insights into sociolinguistic and structural features of youth language, the volume includes case studies from Asia (Indonesia), Australia and Oceania (Arnhem Land, New Ireland), South America (the Amazon, Chile, Argentina), Europe (Germany, Spain) and Africa (Uganda, Nigeria, DR Congo, Central African Republic, South Africa). It expands on existing publications and offers a more comparative and "global" approach, without a division of youth’s strategies in terms of geographical space or language family. This collection, including a conceptual introduction, is of interest to scholars from several linguistic subfields working in different regional contexts as well as sociologists and anthropologists working in the field of adolescence and youth studies.

The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse
The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse

Author: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 902726368X

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This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the exchanges they are engaged in are problematic in terms of the vulnerability of their own and/or each other’s face and the role-identities assumed throughout the interactions. The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these, an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected, such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers, negotiations with a line manager, political news interviews, or public inquiries. Other types of activity, such as service calls or guided tours, involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases, the situated vulnerabilities studied here, whether expected or not, lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event, with implications for goal achievement. The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis, interactional linguistics, and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond. Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).

Pragmatics of Society
Pragmatics of Society

Author: Gisle Andersen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 3110214423

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Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.

Methodology in Politeness Research
Methodology in Politeness Research

Author: Elena Landone

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-16

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3031091612

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This book presents overviews on the specific methods for the study of verbal politeness, which is deeply and constantly involved in our social life. The text offers an original and specific synthesis of traditional and innovative methods for the study of politeness as we conceive it today: as a complex system between the individual microcosm (psychological and cognitive) and the social macrocosm (cultural and relational). The author addresses theoretical and academic issues while exploring various critical points for the future of politeness studies. The reader is provided with a coherent network, which crosses between theory, methods and tools for research. The network results in a wide range of model research that facilitates the practical understanding of the potential for each data collection technique. This monograph offers representative examples of studies of various languages and cultures and appeals to students, researchers and professionals within the field.

Advanced Proficiency and Exceptional Ability in Second Languages
Advanced Proficiency and Exceptional Ability in Second Languages

Author: Kenneth Hyltenstam

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1501500481

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While the literature on second language acquisition and use is overwhelmingly rich with respect to initial and intermediate stages of development, present knowledge of levels of ultimate attainment that are equal or close to that if native speakers has so far not been presented in a coherent manner. This is what the present volume aims to achieve. In addition to chapters that summarize what is currently known about the grammatical, lexical, and discourse features that continue to exhibit instability at the most advanced levels of second language development, the volume presents overviews of the incipient research on two unique learner populations, polyglots and employees in international call centres. Polyglots, defined as language users who are proficient in six or more second languages, may be considered second language learners par excellence. Call centre employees in economically less developed parts of the world are intriguing in how they cope with the high language proficiency requirements of their job. In conclusion, this book is relevant for all readers - both professionals and students - interested in the development of second language theory. For language teachers, the book provides insights that are profitable in classrooms for advanced learners.

Teenage Talk
Teenage Talk

Author: A. Stenström

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-02

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1137430389

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This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

El diálogo oral en el mundo hispanohablante
El diálogo oral en el mundo hispanohablante

Author: Lars Fant

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13:

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"Partiendo de una concepción dialógica del lenguaje, esta colección de once trabajos dedicados al estudio del discurso oral en español ofrece a analistas del discurso, estudiosos de la interacción verbal y estudiantes universitarios de estas disciplinas un conjunto de contribuciones teóricas y aplicadas representativas del estado de la cuestión y de sus desarrollos más recientes. En su análisis de materiales institucionales y coloquiales, los autores proponen nuevos enfoques teóricos y perspectivas analíticas al dar cuenta del valor de la oralidad como manifestación sociocultural en una variedad de contextos. Recoge trabajos de 15 académicos provenientes de siete países: María Bernal, Antonio Briz, Luis Cortés, Lars Fant, Irene Fonte, Fanny Forsberg, Carmen García, Ana María Harvey, Annette Myre Jørgensen, Per Linell, Estrella Montolio, Carlos Olave, Marcela Oyanedel, Anna-Brita Stenström y Rodney Williamson."--Page 4 de la couverture.

La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes
La enseñanza del español a hispanohablantes

Author: María Cecilia Colombi

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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This volume establishes guidelines and sets a foundation for future directions in teaching Spanish to native speakers. Leading scholars in the field address key issues faced by this growing segment of students, teachers, and researchers: the realities of the classroom, how to teach language through culture, whether a standard variety of Spanish exists, and whether it should be taught in the classroom. A discussion of the status of teaching Spanish to native speakers throughout the U.S. and recommendations for future action rounds out this important and timely book.

Introducción a la sociolingüística hispánica
Introducción a la sociolingüística hispánica

Author: Manuel Diaz-Campos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0470657987

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Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica es un libro de texto imprescindible para los estudiantes de pregrado que cursan sociolingüística hispánica. Cada capítulo está redactado en un lenguaje sencillo y accesible. Sobre la base de un enfoque pedagógico, cada capítulo incluye una introducción, una lista de los temas a ser discutidos, el desarrollo de tales temas, un resumen, una lista de términos claves, un glosario de la terminología clave, una sección de ejercicios y preguntas de comprensión al final de cada sección temática de cada capítulo. Provee una introducción actualizada sobre los temas más relevantes de la versátil sociolingüística española contemporánea tales como la variación fonológica, el bilingüismo, la lengua y las leyes, las actitudes lingüísticas, entre otros Incluye una variedad de actividades para apoyar y extender el aprendizaje de los estudiantes Ofrece un enfoque pedagógico único que incluye ejercicios de análisis de datos. Estas actividades estimulan la investigación por parte de los estudiantes a través del uso de las bases de datos, la música popular y otros recursos audiovisuales El libro incluye ejemplos de las variedades de español habladas en el mundo hispanohablante con secciones especiales dedicadas a las variedades habladas en los EEUU Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica is a much-needed undergraduate introduction to the study of sociolinguistics in the Spanish-speaking world. Written in accessible Spanish, each chapter includes an overview, a review of topics, a section of key terms, exercises and questions. Provides up-to-date coverage of the main topics of sociolinguistics – such as phonological variation, bilingualism, and language attitudes – in relation to the Hispanic world Incorporates a variety of activities to support and extend student’s learning Offers a unique pedagogical approach, in which data analysis exercises encourage students to conduct research by using electronic databases, popular music, and audiovisual material Features examples that apply to Spanish varieties spoken around the world, with special sections dedicated to the Spanish varieties of the US