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Learning to Request in a Second Language : A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics / Machiko Achiba.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781853596124
  • 9781853596131
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418 21
LOC classification:
  • P118.2 .A25 2003eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures and Appendices -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 4. Development of Request Realisation -- Chapter 5. Requestive Hints -- Chapter 6. Variation in Use: Request Goals -- Chapter 7. Variation in Use: Addresses -- Chapter 8. Modification -- Chapter 9. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Index
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781853596131

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables, Figures and Appendices -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A Review of the Literature -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 4. Development of Request Realisation -- Chapter 5. Requestive Hints -- Chapter 6. Variation in Use: Request Goals -- Chapter 7. Variation in Use: Addresses -- Chapter 8. Modification -- Chapter 9. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Appendices -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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