Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse
Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Author: Simone Müller

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789027253811

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While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse marker literature and to studies in the pragmatics of learner language. It presents a thorough analysis on the basis of a substantial parallel corpus of spoken language. In this corpus, American students who are native speakers of English and German non-native speakers of English retell and discuss a silent movie. Each of the main chapters of the book is dedicated to one discourse marker, giving a detailed analysis of the functions this discourse marker fulfills in the corpus and a quantitative comparison between the two speaker groups. The book also develops a two-level model of discourse marker functions comprising a textual and an interactional level.

Japanese Discourse Markers
Japanese Discourse Markers

Author: Noriko Onodera

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9789027253750

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This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some discourse markers used in Present Day Japanese. Moment by moment in on-going conversations, where culturally rigidly-defined interactional norms are highly valued, a specific marker is chosen and used by the speakers as their strategy, based on their quite subjective judgment. The section on Diachronic Analysis then demonstrates chronologically how the meanings and forms of the same markers have come into being. Results include some noticeable changes related to the strengthened intersubjectivity. This multi-dimensional study also discusses the relevance of findings to typological characteristics and productivity. Consideration is further given to why certain expressions (rather than others) become discourse markers and independent forms in Japanese.

Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue
Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue

Author: Karin Aijmer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-04-20

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 3110933233

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The present collection of articles, presented at the 8th IADA Conference in Göteborg, focuses on understanding and misunderstanding as dialogic phenomena. The notion of a dialogic grammar and dialogic principles as a framework for understanding human communication and cognition is explored in several contributions. Misunderstanding in dialogue is dealt with in institutional and non-institutional settings, in fiction and film dialogue, from several different theoretical perspectives.

The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context
The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context

Author: Vera Regan

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1847691560

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Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation patterns by the advanced second language learner. Within a variationist paradigm, the findings illuminate a number of issues in relation to the role of speaker identity, gender, and L2 exposure and contact.

The ICNALE Guide
The ICNALE Guide

Author: Shin'ichiro Ishikawa

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1000844560

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This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples of Asian learners’ L2 English speeches and essays. It also offers approachable introductions to a variety of corpus studies on the aspects of Asian learners’ L2 English. Key topics discussed in the book include: background, aims, and methods of learner corpus research principles, designs, and applications of the ICNALE vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics in Asian learners’ L2 English, and individual differences of Asian learners and assessments of their speeches and essays With many case studies and hands-on guides to utilise ICNALE data to the fullest extent, The ICNALE Guide is a unique resource for students, teachers, and researchers who are interested in a corpus-based analysis of L2 acquisition.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking

Author: Tracey M. Derwing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 1000532682

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This Handbook is a comprehensive volume outlining the foremost issues regarding research and teaching of second language speaking, examining such diverse topics as cognitive processing, articulation, knowledge of pragmatics, instruction in sub-components of speaking (e.g., grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary) and the attrition of the first language. Outstanding academics have contributed chapters to provide an integrated and inclusive perspective on oral language skills. Specialized contexts for speaking are also explored (e.g., English as a Lingua Franca, workplace, and interpreting). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education.

Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics
Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics

Author: Jesús Romero-Trillo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3110199025

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The recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralded the application of two paradigms based on distant theoretical principles, they always showed an interest in their mutual advances and their practical reconciliation gave birth to an intellectual synergy that proved very fruitful. The present volume is an homage to the symbiosis of pragmatics and corpus linguistics and gathers the works of some of the scholars that have striven to create the liaison between them for a better understanding of language.