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Download full textCohen, Andrew D.; Olshtain, Elite – 1992
A study is reported that describes ways in which nonnative speakers assess, plan, and execute speech acts in certain situations. The subjects, 15 advanced English foreign-language learners, were given 6 speech act situations (two apologies, two complaints, and two requests) in which they were to role play along with a native speaker. The…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Language Processing
Peer reviewedChavez, Monica – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1999
Reports on student perceptions of classroom discourse, which includes speech between teacher and students as well as among peers. Students indicate both observations of frequency and value judgments. Responses are analyzed by their final course grade. Results are intended to guide future formal and informal observational studies on how relative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, German
Direct linkFrazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles; Rayner, Keith; Deevy, Patricia; Koh, Sungryong; Bader, Markus – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Five experiments investigated the interpretation of quantified noun phrases in relation to discourse structure. They demonstrated, using questionnaire and on-line reading techniques, that readers in English prefer to give a quantified noun phrase in (VP-external) subject position a presuppositional interpretation, in which the noun phrase limits…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen – 1994
This study investigated the hypothesis that in language contact situations, bilinguals develop strategies aimed at lightening the cognitive load of having to remember and use two different linguistic systems, resulting in changes in the secondary language. The study examined four specific strategies (simplification of grammatical categories and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics
Chen, Jianping – 2000
One of the major issues in intercultural discourse studies is the variation of discourse patterns across cultures. It has been reported that there appears to be a Western preference for a deductive pattern and a Chinese preference for an inductive pattern in discourse. However, it has also been pointed out that there is nothing inherently Chinese…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Chinese, Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed.; Kachru, Yamuna, Ed. – 1993
The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context
