Pragmatics, the ability to act and interact by means of language, is a necessary and
sometimes daunting learning task for second and foreign language learners. This chapter …

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …

This book examines how nonnative speakers develop pragmatic ability in a nonprimary
language. In Chapter 2, we discuss several theoretical orientations that have been, or could …

This study examines imagined professional and linguistic communities available to
preservice and in-service English as a second language and English as a foreign language …

This paper investigates 'Reactive Tokens' in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and English. Our
definition of 'Reactive Token'(='RT') is 'a short utterance produced by an interlocutor who is …

This study examines the functions of the bilingual discourse strategy of language alternation
in the process of marking boundaries of continuous discourse. The focus is on switched …

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Herbert E. Brekle, Gerhard Helbig, Hans Jürgen Heringer, Heinz Vater und Richard Wiese …

This chapter is concerned with two types of language alternation phenomena in bilingual
conversation and with transitions and interactions between them. On the one hand, we find …

Backchannel responses appear to be a universal behavior, but specific backchannel
behaviors are particular to language and culture. As such, they offer themselves to test …