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1 online resource (411 pages) |
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Applied Linguistics and Language Study |
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Applied linguistics and language study.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: approaches to communication strategies; PART I Psycholinguistic perspectives; 1 Investigating communication strategies in L2 reference: pros and cons; 2 On psychological plausibility in the study of communication strategies; 3 Compensatory strategies and the principles of clarity and economy; 4 Preference and order in first and second language referential strategies; 5 Strategies in verbal productions of brain-damaged individuals; PART II Expanding the scope |
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6 Developing the ability to evaluate verbal information: the relevance of referential communication research7 Can one be more than two? Mono- and bilinguals' production of German and Spanish object descriptions in a referential communication task; 8 'Y ... no puedo decir mas nada': distanced communication skills of Puerto Rican children; 9 The lexical generation gap: a connectionist account of circumlocution in Chinese as a second language; 10 An introspective analysis of listener inferencing on a second language listening task; 11 Studying language use as collaboration |
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PART III Sociolinguistic perspectives12 A sociolinguistic perspective on L2 communication strategies; 13 Communication strategies in an interactional context: the mutual achievement of comprehension; 14 Communication strategies at work; 15 Beyond reference; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index |
| Summary |
This book examines the topic of communication strategies, the ways in which people seek to express themselves or understand what someone else is saying or writing. Typically, the term has referred to the strategies that non-native speakers use to address the linguistic and pragmatic problems encountered in interactions with native and non-native speakers of the language in question. Studies adopting a psycholinguistic perspective are well represented and updated in this volume. Other chapters re-examine communication strategies from a sociolinguistic perspective, exploring the strategie |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kellerman, Eric
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| ISBN |
9781317894629 |
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1317894626 |
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