Referring in a Second Language: Studies on Reference to Person in a Multilingual World

ISBN-13: 9780367208943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 214 str.

Jonathon Ryan; Peter Crosthwaite

Opis

This volume focuses on how L2 learners meet the challenges of reference, bringing together both eminent and up-and-coming researchers in the field of L2 acquisition and looking at the L2 acquisition of English, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish and cover a diverse range of situational contexts.

Spis treści

Foreword (Henriette Hendriks)  1. Referring in a second language: Introduction to the volume (Peter Crosthwaite and Jonathon Ryan)  2. Referent accessibility marking and referent’s social status in Japanese as a second language (Jo Lumley)  3. Use of demonstratives in oral narratives by Japanese learners of English (Bonnie Swierzbin)  4. Do referential marking styles transfer to L2 story retelling? (Yuko Nakahama)  5. Referential movement in L2 vs Heritage Korean: A learner corpus study (Peter Crosthwaite and Min Jung Jee)  6. Under-explicit and minimally explicit reference: Evidence from a longitudinal case study (Jonathon Ryan)  7. Anaphora resolution in topic continuity: Evidence from L1 English-L2 Spanish data in the CEDEL2 corpus (Fernando Martín-Villena and Cristóbal Lozano)  8. Using the Givenness Hierarchy to examine article use in academic writing: A case study of adult Spanish-speaking learners of English (Jennifer Killam)  9. Referent introducing strategies in advanced L2 usage: A bi-directional study on French learners of Chinese and Chinese learners of French (Ludovica Lena)  10. Nominal reference in L2 French: How do adult learners manage to understand the multifunctionality of determiners and their discourse counterparts? (Ewa Lenart)  11. Afterword: New directions in L2 reference research (Jonathon Ryan and Peter Crosthwaite)