posted on 2023-05-22, 07:58authored byWei 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.
History
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