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Pragmatic Transfer and Development

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posted on 2023-05-22, 07:58 authored by Wei LiWei Li
Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as pragmatic transfer, which may cause misunderstandings and lead to cross-cultural communication breakdown. This book examines pragmatic transfer by Chinese learners of English at different proficiency levels when writing email requests and refusals. To meet the need for developmental research in L2 pragmatics, it also explores whether pragmatic transfer increases or decreases as language proficiency improves. This book will appeal to researchers and students in interlanguage and intercultural pragmatics, second language acquisition, English as a second/foreign language, and intercultural communication.

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Series

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Edition

287

Pagination

268

ISBN

9789027264176

Department/School

School of Humanities

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Place of publication

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rights statement

Copyright 2018 John Benjamins B.V.

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Communication across languages and culture; Pedagogy

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