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Legrand-Gelber, Regine – Linguistique, 1975
This article discusses communication as a subject of psycholinguistic study, with reference to amnesiacal aphasia. The aphasic's problem is presented as a rupture of the communicative act, on the linguistic as well as on the extra-linguistic level. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Communication Problems, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedHarris, Richard M. – Language Sciences, 1972
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavior, Cultural Background, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedPoyatos, Fernando – Linguistics, 1976
This article stresses the need for examining the total context of language, including the biological characteristics of the speaker, and anthropological, psychological, geographic, and socioeconomic factors. (CLK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedMcCafferty, Steven G. – Applied Linguistics, 1998
Reports a study of the relationship between nonverbal forms of communication, principally gestures, and second language (L2) private speech through recall and picture narration task. Results show nonverbal elements illuminate the private speech they accompany, and gestures alone act in a self-regulatory capacity after pauses, implying a connection…
Descriptors: Body Language, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences, Inner Speech (Subvocal)
Download full textde Kadt, Elizabeth – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study investigated requests as speech acts in "Zulu English," the English of Zulu first-language speakers, seeking to explain miscommunication in interactions between Zulu- and English-speakers by pointing to pragmatic transfer as one possible cause. Data were collected by means of a series of discourse completion tests in Zulu, Zulu…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
de Kadt, Elizabeth – 1995
A case is made for a broader approach to the study of politeness strategies, as has been demanded increasingly by linguists working on non-Western languages. Using data from a role-played dialogue involving a request in the Southern Bantu language Zulu, speakers are first located culturally, then the sequence of vrebal utterances as a whole is…
Descriptors: African Languages, Body Language, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
Bouton, Lawrence F., Ed. – 1995
The series of articles in this volume were selected from among those presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning in April 1994. Articles include: "The Right Tool for the Job: Techniques for Analysis of Natural Language Use" (Georgia M. Green); "Sinclair & Coulthard Revisited: Global-…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Arabic, Body Language, Chinese
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1969
Four issues of the "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents are as follows: "The Utterance-Response Method to Pattern Drill" by Jason B. Alter; "Your Gestures and Mannerisms: A Help or Hindrance?" by Alice C. Pack; "Part II: A Structural Comparison of English and Tongan" by Ermel J. Morton; "Teaching…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Silva, David J., Ed. – 1998
A collection of research in Japanese and Korean linguistics includes: "Repetition, Reformulation, and Definitions: Prosodic Indexes of Elaboration in Japanese" (Mieko Banno); "Projection of Talk Using Language, Intonation, Deictic and Iconic Gestures and Other Body Movements" (Keiko Emmett); "Turn-taking in Japanese…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advertising, Bilingualism, Broadcast Television
