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Roever, Carsten, Ed.; Nguy?n, H?nh th?, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2013
This volume offers a wealth of new information about the forms of several speech acts and their social distribution in Vietnamese as L1 and L2, complemented by a chapter on address forms and listener responses. As the first of its kind, the book makes a valuable contribution to the research literature on pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and language…
Descriptors: Vietnamese, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Day-Vines, Norma L.; Barto, Heather H.; Booker, Beverly L.; Smith, Kim V.; Barna, Jennifer; Maiden, Brian S.; Zegley, Linda; Felder, Monique T. – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
African American English (AAE) refers to the systematic, rule-governed linguistic patterns of found among African Americans. This article provides an overview of AAE. More specifically, the article enumerates the historical underpinnings associated with AAE, identifies a representative set of AAE characteristics, reviews relevant research, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Bias, School Counseling, School Counselors
Dziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics
Lin, Grace Hui Chin; Su, Simon Chun Feng; Ho, Max Ming Hsuang – Online Submission, 2009
Pragmatics is included in one of four communicative competences (Canale, 1980). It is necessary and important to teach pragmatics at school in our globalized world in order to avoid as much as misunderstanding, which is likely to stem from cultural difference. As a result, greater importance should be attached to diverse customs and pragmatics.…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Research Methodology, Cultural Differences, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Jefferson, Gail – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1993
The phenomena of overlapping talk is examined. In numerous types of conversational exchanges, people briefly acknowledge the utterance that overlapped their own and then recycle an overlapped utterance and/or introduce a new topic. Three types of objects are illustrated and discussed: an acknowledgment token, an assessment, and a commentary. (four…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage
Burt, Susan Meredith – 1995
Sociopragmatic ambiguity (SPA) is claimed here to differ from other, better-known types of ambiguity, in terms of its locus, cause, and effect. SPA is characteristic of whole-discourse features rather than of lexical items or phrases. The ambiguity is one of social rather than ideational or semantic meaning. It is claimed that SPA arises through…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Godden, Kurt – 1979
Donnellan's distinction between attributive and referential uses of definite descriptions is extended to include Lewis' basic categories. The distinction as applied to sentences is brought out by investigating the consequences of the failure of presupposed sentences. Stalnaker uses Donnellan's distinction to support his theory of creating an…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cultural Context, Grammar, Language Patterns
Merritt, Marilyn – 1978
The role of the particle "o.k." in service encounter dialogue is discussed. A service encounter is defined as a situation of interaction between a "posted" server and a second party (a customer) who invokes the server's participation as an operator of a "serving post." It is suggested that approval or acceptance is often only part of what is being…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Akinnaso, F. Niyi – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1981
Examines the effects of literacy on cultural traditions, linguistic behavior, socioeconomic organization, cognitive processes, and child development. Considers the implications for anthropological, psychological, and linguistic theories from the increased attention given to the study of literacy. Includes suggestions for socially and culturally…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Cognitive Development, Educational Anthropology, Educational Policy
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Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Following the study of Gilman and Ford on address terms, an increasing number of studies have been conducted in several sociocultural settings. In line with this trend, the present study attempts to describe and explain address terms among the Akans of postcolonial Ghana. Using observation as the main research tool corroborated by interview and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Observation, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Carranza, Isolda – 1992
The starting point of this thesis is the hypothesis that in Spanish there are conventionalized expressions that signal both the articulation of text parts and the speaker's attitude towards the utterance. "Pragmatic Expressions" (PEs) are fixed lexical forms that contribute to text creation in relation to the context of enunciation, are oriented…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Richterich, Rene – Francais dans le Monde, 1976
This article is concerned with the pragmatic aspects of linguistics research, i.e., the characteristics of language use such as the psychological motivations of speakers, the reactions of the hearers, and discourse analysis, insofar as they relate to second language learning. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), French, Language Instruction
Roussel, F. – 1974
Discursive functions are seldom expressed in an absolutely neutral way. In most cases, various colorings - expressive, affective or social - are superimposed on the utterance by which a function is conveyed. In so far as these colorings are not random shades, but can be regarded as graded nuances within given ranges, selected in order to fit the…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Interaction, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Dirksen, Carolyn Rowland – 1978
Sociolinguists have recently demonstrated the value of directives in indicating the relationship between status and linguistic form. The purpose of the instrument developed for this study was to quantify the coerciveness of directives on the basis of the theoretical approaches in the literature to objectify the comparison of directive forms.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Females, Interaction Process Analysis
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