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Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. 1996. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. VI + 350 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
crosscultural communication | L2-acquisition | speech act
Language as a subject
Chinese | Egyptian | English, American | English, British | French | Japanese | Korean | Spanish
ISBN
3-11-014082-9

Annotation

Through data from a wide range of languages and through a wide range of speech acts, this volume describes speech act from a cross-cultural perspective.

Articles in this volume

Cohen, Andrew D. Investigating the production of speech acts. 21–43
Houck, Noël and Susan M. Gass. Non-native refusals: A methodological perspective. 45–64
Beebe, Leslie M. and M.J. Cummings. Natural speech act data versus written questionnaire data: How data collection method affects speech act performance. 65–86
Eisenstein, Miriam, Jean W. Bodman and Mary Carpenter. Cross-cultural realization of greetings in American English. 89–107
Nelson, Gayle L., Waguida El Bakary and Mahmoud Al Batal. Egyptian and American compliments: Focus on second language learners. 109–128
Geis, Michael L. and Linda L. Harlow. Politeness strategies in French and English. 129–153
Maeshiba, Naoko, Naoko Yoshinaga, Gabriele Kasper and Steven Ross. Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing. 155–187
Murphy, Bett and Joyce Neu. My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining. 191–216
Boxer, Diana. Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech-act analysis: The case of complaint. 217–239
Goldschmidt, Myra. From the addressee's perspective: Imposition in favor-asking. 241–256
Koike, Dale April. Transfer of pragmatic competence and suggestions in Spanish foreign language learning. 257–281
Schmidt, Richard W., Akihiko Shimura, Zhigang Wang and Hy-sook Jeong. Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U.S., Japan, China and Korea. 285–316
Graham, John L. Culture, negotiations and international cooperative ventures. 317–338