This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period.
The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have...

This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo a language spoken by about 770 people as well as a description of their oral traditions (drum-dancing and story-telling) and the most extensive glossary of the language compiled to date. The book presents the Polar Eskimo language in the orthography established by the author in conjunction with the local community in Greenland, an extremely difficult...

Le langage prefabrique suscite l interet aussi bien de la linguistique generale que de la linguistique acquisitionnelle. La recurrence, la repetition et la non-application de regles grammaticales et lexicales concernent par consequent ces deux branches de recherche, meme si les methodes d identification et les definitions utilisees sont parfois distinctes.
Dans le but de comprendre le phenomene vaste des sequences prefabriquees (SP), leur acquisition aux differents niveaux de competence linguistique ainsi que les usages qu en font les locuteurs natifs, l auteur combine les approches de la...