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Cots, Josep M.; Nussbaum, Luci – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
The growing presence of children of immigrant families in the public school system in the bilingual region of Catalonia provides us with an opportunity to study how young multilingual and multicultural speakers construct their social competencies and their identity within the specific context of a gate-keeping social institution such as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants, English (Second Language)
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Reiter, Rosina Marquez; Rainey, Isobel; Fulcher, Glenn – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article presents the results of an exploratory empirical study into the perception of conventionally indirect requests in British English and Peninsular Spanish, given the high incidence of the pragmatic category over others in its encoding of politeness in both related and unrelated languages (cf. Blum-Kulka et al., 1989). More specifically,…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Language Patterns, Pragmatics, English
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Lafford, Barbara A.; Ryan, John M. – Hispania, 1995
Examination of the development of form/function relations of the prepositions "por" and "para" at different levels of proficiency in the interlanguage of study-abroad students in Granada, Spain, revealed "noncanonical" as well as "canonical" uses of these prepositions. The most common noncanonical uses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997
English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics