Learning to Request in a Second Language A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics

This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven- year-old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees. This...

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Main Author Achiba, Machiko
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Clevedon Multilingual Matters 07.02.2003
Edition1
SeriesSecond Language Acquisition
Subjects
Acquisition
Children
English
English language
English language > Acquisition
Grammar, Comparative and general
Interlanguage (Language learning)
Japanese
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics
Linguistics
pragmatic competence
pragmatic development
Pragmatics
Second language acquisition
SLA
English
SLA
pragmatic development
Japanese
pragmatics
pragmatic competence
Second Language Acquisition
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Summary:This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven- year-old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees. This book helps unravel features of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage, a subject about which we yet know very little.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and indexes
ISBN:1853596124
9781853596124
DOI:10.21832/9781853596131