Christine Béal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine Béal plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2405-9269
2023 Temporal reference in oral narratives produced by French learners of English as a second language: The case of AND Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 305–322 | Chapter
The differing approaches to expressing temporality across languages lead us to question what difficulties might be experienced by learners of a second language when referring to time. We examine the spoken data of 33 French university learners of English to assess their mastery of the English… read more
1992 Did you have a good week-end? or why there is no such thing as a simple question in cross-cultural encounters Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 15:1, pp. 23–52 | Article
This paper is a description of some typical differences in conversational routines in French and Australian English, and the kinds of tensions that arise when speakers with two different sets of rules come into contact. This conflict exists for most French people in Australia, who speak English,… read more
1990 ‘Its all in the asking’: A perspective on problems of cross-cultural communication between native speakers of French and native speakers of Australian English in the workplace Cross-Cultural Communication in the Professions in Australia, Pauwels, Anne (ed.), pp. 16–32 | Article
When people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds have to work together, this often leads to negative stereotyping, as the result of clashing rules of interaction. This article, based on ‘on the job’ recorded data, looks at the particular case of French people living and working in… read more
1983 Video in the classroom: New perspectives on an underdeveloped medium Foreign Language Teaching, Quinn, T.J. (ed.), pp. 30–35 | Article