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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)
Ford, Maria Z. – Dialog on Language Instruction, 1995
Addresses issues of verbal communication around the world, explores the power of various linguistic means of expressing politeness, and defines negative and positive politeness. Beneath the surface differences, cultures around the world display amazing similarities in the linguistic means of expressing politeness. (27 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns, Social Attitudes
Sandig, Barbara – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1970
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, German, Language Patterns, Language Styles
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Poyatos, 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
Labov, William – 1972
Reported here is the work of two linguists, William Labov and Paul Cohen, and of two black researchers who know the culture of the inner city, Clarence Robins and John Lewis. Together they explore certain aspects of Black English vernacular (BEV) and certain political and cultural aspects of the black community. Part 1 (chapters 1-4) deals with…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Handicaps
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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Feldman, Carol Fleisher; Wertsch, James V. – Youth and Society, 1976
The speech of elementary school teachers in two contexts (adult-adult conversation and the classroom) was examined for the use of stance-indicating devices, i.e. ways of conveying one's attitudes towards a proposition; independent evidence supports the notion that teachers' perception of social distance between themselves and their listeners…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Content Analysis, Elementary School Teachers, Expressive Language
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Farr, Marcia; Janda, Mary Ann – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
Investigates the relationship between the oral and written language of one college-level basic writing student who is a speaker of vernacular Black English (VBE). Reports that neither VBE patterns in the student's oral language nor other features of orality that previous research has identified account for his writing problems. (HOD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Language Patterns, Oral Language
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Ferguson, Charles A. – Language in Society, 1976
The use of interpersonal verbal routines such as greetings and thanks is examined as a universal phenomenon of human languages. Examples from Syrian Arabic, American English and other languages are used to show differing patterns of structure and use, susceptible of grammatical and sociolinguistic analysis. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals
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Ainsworth, Nancy – Theory into Practice, 1984
Sociolinguistic analysis of the ways children and teachers interact verbally may provide insight into why minority children often have difficulty in school. Examples of a classroom discussion cycle are listed and discussed. (DF)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Language Patterns, Learning Processes
Elias-Olivares, Lucia – 1976
The linguistic varieties in use in the Chicano speech community of East Austin (Texas) and the attitudes toward them were studied. Data were collected from field work done in a section of Austin that comprised over half of the Chicano population. The section was a practically segregated urban neighborhood and somewhat isolated from other ethnic…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
Vukelich, Carol – 1973
Recent studies suggest that the language deficiency often attributed to disadvantaged children, especially disadvantaged black children, is not a language deficit so much as a difficulty in dialect switching. The disadvantaged child's language patterns are different from the language patterns of the child from the mainstream of American society. A…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Roulet, Eddy – Bulletin CILA, 1976
In addition to the communicative end served by language learning, there is another objective: the discovery, by the student, of the system and the workings of his native language. The values of this objective include: (1) formative value: the possibility of achieving a better understanding of the fundamental and uniquely human phenomenon which is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education
Lawton, David, Ed. – 1971
The seven papers in this volume cover varied topics in the field of current linguistics. The first paper, on underlying phonological representations, is written to show that, on the basis of syllabification, vowel quality is a redundant aspect of English phonology and that stress assignment can also be based on syllabification. The second paper…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects, English
Waite, Duncan – 1991
This report describes a "culturally contexted" conversation analysis approach to the study of naturally occurring speech in supervisory conferences. The supervisors and teachers were participants in a graduate program for beginning teachers, and the conference's purpose was supervisory evaluation of teachers' classroom performances. Ethnographic…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Conferences, Discourse Modes, Elementary Secondary Education
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