Pragmatics Grammar And Meaning In Sla

Author : Aoife K. Ahern,José Amenós-Pons,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
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Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009032605

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Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA by Aoife K. Ahern,José Amenós-Pons,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

This Element explores the role of pragmatics, and its relationship with meaning and grammar, in second language acquisition. Specifically, this Element examines the generative paradigm, with its focus on purely linguistic aspects, in contrast with, and complemented by, the view of language adopted in the wider perspective on communication that Relevance Theory offers. It reviews several theoretical standpoints on how linguistic phenomena that require combining semantic, pragmatic and syntactic information are acquired and developed in second languages, illustrating how these perspectives are brought together in analysing data in different linguistic scenarios. It shows that the notion of procedural meaning casts light on the range of interpretative effects of grammatical features and how they vary across languages, suggesting ways to complete the picture of the interface factors that affect second language development.

Author : Salvatore Attardo,Lucy Pickering
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119554288

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Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA by Salvatore Attardo,Lucy Pickering Pdf

A concise introduction to the field of theoretical pragmatics and its applications in second language acquisition and English-language instruction Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA offers an in-depth description of key areas of linguistic pragmatics and a review of how those topics can be applied to pedagogy in the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). This book is an excellent resource for students and professionals who have an interest in teaching pragmatics (speech acts, the cooperative principle, deixis, politeness theory, and more) in second language contexts. This book introduces technical terminology and concepts—including the fundamentals of semantics and semiotics—in simple language, and it provides illuminating examples, making it an excellent choice for readers with an elementary linguistics background who wish to further their knowledge of pragmatics. It also covers more advanced pragmatics topics, including stance, indexicality, and pragmatic appropriateness. Key features include: A comprehensive introduction to pragmatics, covering meaning, speech acts, the cooperation principle, politeness, metapragmatics, and more A unique orientation toward practical application in second language acquisition studies and English-language instruction Two-part chapters clearly separating theoretical introductions from concrete, real-world applications of the theory Thorough coverage that is accessible to both students and professionals currently teaching English to speakers of other languages, including sample lesson plans Practical chapters on the interface between pragmatics and teaching, and on research design Pragmatics and its Applications to TESOL and SLA is a comprehensive and coherent introduction, perfect for students, researchers, and scholars of pragmatics, second language acquisition, language teaching, and intercultural communication. It is also an excellent resource for professionals in the field of English-language education.

Author : Aoife K. Ahern,José Amenós-Pons,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009032797

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Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA by Aoife K. Ahern,José Amenós-Pons,Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Pdf

This Element explores the role of pragmatics, and its relationship with meaning and grammar, in second language acquisition. Specifically, this Element examines the generative paradigm, with its focus on purely linguistic aspects, in contrast with, and complemented by, the view of language adopted in the wider perspective on communication that Relevance Theory offers. It reviews several theoretical standpoints on how linguistic phenomena that require combining semantic, pragmatic and syntactic information are acquired and developed in second languages, illustrating how these perspectives are brought together in analysing data in different linguistic scenarios. It shows that the notion of procedural meaning casts light on the range of interpretative effects of grammatical features and how they vary across languages, suggesting ways to complete the picture of the interface factors that affect second language development.

Author : Ive Emaliana,Widya Caterine Perdhani
Publisher : Universitas Brawijaya Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9786022035732

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Pragmatics in Language Learning by Ive Emaliana,Widya Caterine Perdhani Pdf

This book aims to develop pragmatics understanding in accordance with the teaching and learning process of English as foreign language relates to the necessity for real communication. Pragmatics and its area of study, like speech acts, politeness, the face wants, the negative and positive face, and implicature should be implemented in the foreign language learning activities for gaining pragmatic competence. This can be done through comprehending that teaching pragmatic becomes an integral part of learning, identifying teaching techniques used to insert pragmatic competence, and implementing it in the teaching and learning activities. The expectation is that this book will be beneficial for English language teachers in general and prospectus teachers who are currently studying in English teacher training institutions.

Author : P. Sgall,Eva Hajicová,Jarmila Panevová
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027718385

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The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects by P. Sgall,Eva Hajicová,Jarmila Panevová Pdf

Author : Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317869474

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Principles of Pragmatics by Geoffrey N. Leech Pdf

Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical model of pragmatics: that is, a model which studies linguistic communication in terms of communicative goals and principles of 'good communicative behaviour'. In this respect, Geoffrey Leech argues for a rapprochement between linguistics and the traditional discipline of rhetoric. He does not reject the Chomskvan revolution of linguistics, but rather maintains that the language system in the abstract - i.e. the 'grammar' broadly in Chomsky's sense - must be studied in relation to a fully developed theory of language use. There is therefore a division of labour between grammar and rhetoric, or (in the study of meaning) between semantics and pragmatics. The book's main focus is thus on the development of a model of pragmatics within an overall functional model of language. In this it builds on the speech avct theory of Austin and Searle, and the theory of conversational implicature of Grice, but at the same time enlarges pragmatics to include politeness, irony, phatic communion, and other social principles of linguistic behaviour.

Author : Mira Ariel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521517836

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Defining Pragmatics by Mira Ariel Pdf

This groundbreaking book challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics and the assumption that specific topics belong on the pragmatics turf.

Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110151537

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Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly Pdf

The contents of this volume are a selection from the papers given at the Sixth International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG), which was held in York, at the University College of Ripon and York St John, from 18 to 22 August, 1994. Functional Grammar as understood in the ICFGs and in this volume is the linguistic model as proposed by Simon Dik, and to date most extensively described and discussed in Dik (1989). The indebtedness of the FG-community to Simon Dik, who died six months after the conference was held, is great indeed. The editors hope that this volume is a fitting tribute to his work.

Author : Etsuyo Yuasa,Tista Bagchi,Katharine Beals
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287120

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Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar by Etsuyo Yuasa,Tista Bagchi,Katharine Beals Pdf

This book presents papers in honor of Jerry Sadock’s rich legacy in pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar. Highlights of the pragmatics section include Larry Horn on almost, barely, and assertoric inertia; William Lycan on Sadock’s resolution of the Performadox with truth1 and truth2; and Jay Atlas on Moore’s Paradox and the truth value of propositions of belief. Highlights of the Autolexical Grammar section include Fritz Newmeyer’s comparison of the minimalist, autolexical, and transformational treatments of English nominals; Barbara Abott’s extension of Sadock’s PRO-less syntax to a PRO-less semantics of the infinitival complements of know how; and Haj Ross’s syntactic connections between semantically related English pseudoclefts. Encompassing a range of languages (Aleut, Bangla, Greenlandic, Japanese, and a home-based sign language) and extending into psycholinguistics (language acquisition, sentence processing, and autism) this volume will interest a range of readers, from theoretical linguists and philosophers of language to applied linguists and exotic language specialists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 0511423497

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Pragmatics and Grammar by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207784

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Key Notions for Pragmatics by Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this first volume reviews basic notions that pervade the pragmatic literature, such as deixis, implicitness, speech acts, context, and the like. It situates the field of pragmatics, broadly defined as the cognitive, social, and cultural science of language use, in relation to a general concept of communication and the discipline of semiotics. It also touches upon the non-verbal aspects of language use and even ventures a comparison with non-human forms of communication. The introductory chapter, moreover, explains why a highly diversified field of scholarship such as pragmatics can be regarded as a potentially coherent enterprise.

Author : Jeffrey Gil,Sky Marsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000593877

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Exploring Language in Global Contexts by Jeffrey Gil,Sky Marsen Pdf

This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts. Bringing together leading specialists who are active researchers in the field of linguistics, this book introduces readers to major fields of language study by focusing on social, cultural and historical factors that show the dynamic nature of language. Topics explored include first and second language acquisition, grammar, meaning-making and pragmatics, language use and technology, language variation, and English as a global language. This book surveys major principles and shows how to apply them through structured discussion topics and activities to facilitate a greater understanding and appreciation of language. This is essential reading for undergraduate students taking courses in linguistics and language use, and a valuable resource for students of communication studies, media studies, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Marcus Callies
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289483

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Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English by Marcus Callies Pdf

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners’ use of discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, preposing, and it- and wh-clefts, an underexplored field in SLA research to date.The book also provides a critical re-assessment of the study of pragmatics within SLA. It has largely been neglected to date that L2 pragmatic knowledge includes more than the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic abilities for understanding and performing speech acts. Thus, the book argues for an extension of the scope of inquiry in interlanguage pragmatics beyond the cross-cultural investigation of speech acts. It also discusses pedagogical implications for foreign language teaching and will be of interest to applied linguists and SLA researchers, language teachers and curriculum designers.

Author : Eniko Nemeth,Károly Bibok
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585474267

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Pragmatics and the Flexibility of Word Meaning by Eniko Nemeth,Károly Bibok Pdf

Recently, the investigation of word meaning in utterances has connected two different fields: lexical semantics and pragmatics. A new linguistic discipline, namely lexical pragmatics, is emerging. The eleven papers of the present book constitute a unit in the sense that they have a common aim: to explore the interaction between lexical semantics and pragmatics. The authors examine phenomena such as productive sense extension, regular polysemy, multifunctionality, implicit arguments and predicates, and non-typical anaphoric pronouns, on the basis of linguistic data, for instance, from English, Norwegian, Russian, and Hungarian, as well as using a great variety of frameworks (optimality framework, two-level semantics, the theory of generative lexicon, cognitive grammar, Gricean theory, and relevance theory.

Author : Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289148

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Pragmatics in Practice by Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thereby attempting to divide up its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, discursive, variational, or interactional angles, this 9th volume focuses on what pragmatics is good for – beyond the very discipline of pragmatics as such. The chapters in the volume thus address the importance of taking a pragmatic perspective on traditional fields of applied linguistics (contrastive and error analysis, translation), and they address the core of pragmatics as the study of language use (with phenomena ranging from irony and emphasis to literacy and mass media, and with approaches to the function of language like rhetoric, stylistics, corpus analysis, and general semantics). The volume contains chapters not only on the spoken and written modes of communication, but also on signed language pragmatics and on computer-mediated communication. The impact and usefulness of taking a pragmatic perspective on language for a deeper understanding of clinical and rehabilitation practices has recently received ever more focus; in this volume, aspects of this direction of research are dealt with in the chapter on clinical pragmatics. In most of the chapters in the volume, ethics has a core role to play, not only in issues of authenticity in general in relation to research on language use, but also in issues that have a direct influence on the (linguistic) culture and society we live in, irrespective of whether we are part of a (linguistic) majority or a minority, or a minority within a minority: language policy and language planning, language ecology, and language in relation to legal matters. In all of these fields, we see the importance of research within pragmatics as a discipline dealing with how language influences our everyday lives. All in all, the volume presents different perspectives on how research in pragmatics not only can be put to practice, but how pragmatics is used as a tool to gain a better understanding of the world we live in.