Cognitive Insights Into Discourse Markers and Second Language Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9781787078918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Bello, Iria

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Iria Bello/Carolina Bernales/Maria Vittoria Calvi/Elena Landone: Introduction: Insights into Discourse Markers: Cognition and Acquisition - Eugenia Sainz: Evidentiality, intersubjectivity and ownership of the information: The evidential utterances with así que and que in Spanish - Elisa Narváez García/Lourdes Torres: Processing causality in Spanish-speaking L2 English: An experimental approach to the study of therefore - Olga Ivanova/Iria Bello Viruega: Pragmatic processing in second language: What can focus operators tell us about cognitive performance in L2? - Iria Bello Viruega/Carolina Bernales: Processing focus operators and pragmatic scales: An eyetracking study on information processing in English L2 - Christian Koch/Britta Thörle: The discourse markers sí, claro and vale in Spanish as a Foreign Language - An Vande Casteele/Kim Collewaert: A pilot study on the use of discourse markers in the oral discourse of language learners of Spanish - Marilisa Birello/Roberta Ferroni: The appropriation of discourse markers by students of Italian as a Foreign Language in a sequence of actionoriented learning tasks - Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga: Expressing agreement in L2 Italian: Strategies and discourse markers in Spanish learners - Patrizia Giuliano/Rosa Russo/Simona Anastasio: Discourse markers, interlanguage level and social integration: The immigrant learners in the Naples area.

O autorze

Iria Bello is a research assistant at Heidelberg University, where she also teaches English and Spanish language and culture at the Institute of Translation and Interpreting. Her research interests include historical sociolinguistics and cognitive and corpus linguistics.

Carolina Bernales is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Pontifi cia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso-Chile. Her research focuses on lexical processing and reading comprehension in a second language and she has also has published on classroom interaction and foreign language learning.

Maria Vittoria Calvi is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Translation at the University of Milan and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas hispánicas. Her research interests include comparative Spanish and Italian linguistics, discourse analysis, Spanish and Italian in migration contexts, genre analysis and cross-cultural variation in professional and specialized discourse, with a particular focus on the language of tourism.

Elena Landone is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University Degli Studi in Milan. Her main research fields are discourse markers, pragmatics and foreign language teaching and she is the author of Los marcadores del discurso y la cortesía verbal en español (2009).