東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian:...

Owen, Jeanette Sarah.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies./
Author:	Owen, Jeanette Sarah.
Description:	267 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Dan E. Davidson; Richard D. Brecht.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3035194
ISBN:	9780493482187

Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies.
Owen, Jeanette Sarah.

Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies. - 267 p.

Advisers: Dan E. Davidson; Richard D. Brecht.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 2001.

This dissertation compares the performances of request speech acts by native and non-native speakers of Russian in role-play situations frequently used in the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Previous research in cross-cultural pragmatics, which aims to ascertain to what extent speech acts are universal in nature or culturally and language specific, as well as research in interlanguage pragmatics, which investigates the process by which pragmatic competence is acquired in a second language, form the basis of this study. Within a rigorous theoretical framework, the dissertation identifies differences in native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) linguistic performances in request scenarios, and examines the development of pragmatic competence in non-native speakers of various proficiency levels and study-abroad experience.

ISBN: 9780493482187Subjects--Topical Terms:

626653
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies.
LDR:03477nam 2200349 a 45 001 970373
005 20110921
008 110921s2001 eng d
020 $a 9780493482187
035 $a (UMI)AAI3035194
035 $a AAI3035194
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Owen, Jeanette Sarah. $3 1294410
245 1 0 $a Interlanguage pragmatics in Russian: A study of the effects of study abroad and proficiency levels on request strategies.
300 $a 267 p.
500 $a Advisers: Dan E. Davidson; Richard D. Brecht.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4145.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 2001.
520 $a This dissertation compares the performances of request speech acts by native and non-native speakers of Russian in role-play situations frequently used in the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). Previous research in cross-cultural pragmatics, which aims to ascertain to what extent speech acts are universal in nature or culturally and language specific, as well as research in interlanguage pragmatics, which investigates the process by which pragmatic competence is acquired in a second language, form the basis of this study. Within a rigorous theoretical framework, the dissertation identifies differences in native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) linguistic performances in request scenarios, and examines the development of pragmatic competence in non-native speakers of various proficiency levels and study-abroad experience.
520 $a The research data consist of 60 NS and 84 NNS role-plays performances in OPI role-play situations. The NNS interviews were conducted either before or after a term of study in Russia; OPI scores range from Novice-Low to Superior. The degree of directness of the request strategies (the linguistic means chosen by speakers to voice requests) generated in the role-plays were analyzed using two taxonomies: The Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP) taxonomy, and a modified taxonomy developed for this study. A comparison of the results achieved using the two taxonomies to code the data shows that the modified taxonomy reveals differences in directness levels among NS and NNS groups that the CCSARP taxonomy obscures.
520 $a Using the modified taxonomy, the comparison of NS and NNS groups shows that more proficient learners better approximate NS preferences for directness in request strategies than do less proficient learners. The analysis of the data also suggests that study abroad experience alone, regardless of proficiency level, leads to more native like strategy selection. At the same time, even the Advanced-Superior rated NNS speakers, who closely approximate NS preferences for directness levels, fail to make use of the negative and conditional particles to mitigate their requests that the native speakers typically employ. These findings offer insights into the development of pragmatic competence in non-native speakers of Russian, and isolate potential areas of difficulty that can be addressed through language instruction.
590 $a School code: 0025.
650 4 $a Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. $3 626653
650 4 $a Education, Language and Literature. $3 1018115
650 4 $a Language, Linguistics. $3 1018079
650 4 $a Language, Modern. $3 1018098
650 4 $a Speech Communication. $3 1017408
690 $a 0279
690 $a 0282
690 $a 0290
690 $a 0291
690 $a 0459
710 2 0 $a Bryn Mawr College. $3 1032915
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 62-12A.
790 $a 0025
790 1 0 $a Brecht, Richard D., $e advisor
790 1 0 $a Davidson, Dan E., $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2001
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3035194