Publications
Publication details [#54550]
Guillot, Marie-Noëlle. 2011. Interruption in advanced learner French. Issues of pragmatic discrimination. In Aijmer, Karin, ed. Contrastive Pragmatics. (Benjamins Current Topics 30). John Benjamins. pp. 97–112. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
This exploratory study focuses on interruption as a feature of conversational management in multi-participant talk in advanced L2 French, based on a comparison with L1 French and English. It has two overall objectives: to consider pragmatic adaptations in L2 French from the point of view of interactional pressures, and to assess cross-cultural differences in the management of talk from the standpoint of learners. It is thus at the interface between interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics research. The analysis highlights tensions between pragmatic and processing demands in the learner data, resulting in limited pragmatic discrimination, differential adaptations to native French practices and possible stereotyping.