Interlanguage Refusals
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Interlanguage Refusals

A Cross-cultural Study of Japanese-English

  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Interlanguage Refusals

A Cross-cultural Study of Japanese-English

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Yes, you can access Interlanguage Refusals by Noël Houck,Susan M. Gass in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sprachen & Linguistik & Historische & vergleichende Sprachwissenschaften. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. 1. The study of refusals
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Refusals
  5. 3. Possible refusal trajectories
  6. 4. Categorizing refusal responses
  7. 4.1. Identifying refusal features
  8. 4.2. Classification systems
  9. 5. Studies of refusals
  10. 2. Issues of methodology
  11. 1. Introduction
  12. 2. Data collection
  13. 2.1. Discourse completion tests
  14. 2.2. Role play
  15. 2.3. Other methodology comparisons
  16. 3. Video data
  17. 4. Data-base
  18. 5. Analysis of interactional aspects – Effect of open role play
  19. 5.1. Quantitative analysis
  20. 5.2. Qualitative analysis: Classifying the data
  21. 6. Analysis of nonverbal aspects – Effect of video
  22. 6.1. Nonverbal messages
  23. 6.2. Physical context
  24. 6.3. Directionality and intensity of attention
  25. 6.4. Affect
  26. 6.5. Disadvantages
  27. 7. Conclusion
  28. 3. Episodes
  29. 1. Introduction
  30. 2. The episode
  31. 3. A complete refusal sequence
  32. 4. Analysis
  33. 4.1. Quantitative analysis
  34. 4.2. Qualitative analysis
  35. 5. Interpretation
  36. 6. Conclusion
  37. 4. Non-native management of back channels in English refusals
  38. 1. Introduction
  39. 2. Back channels
  40. 3. Head movement
  41. 4. Japanese and English nonverbal indicators
  42. 5. Issues of methodology
  43. 6. Analysis
  44. 6.1. Ability
  45. 6.2. Distribution: High frequency contexts
  46. 6.3. Distribution: A low frequency context
  47. 6.4. Problems
  48. 7. Conclusion
  49. 5. Nonverbal behavior in non-native English refusals
  50. 1. Introduction
  51. 2. Nonverbal behavior
  52. 2.1. Strategic uses of nonverbal behavior
  53. 2.2. Cross-cultural differences in nonverbal behavior
  54. 3. The data
  55. 4. Comparison of non-native speakers’ nonverbal behavior
  56. 4.1. Rie’s nonverbal behavior
  57. 4.2. Ryo’s nonverbal behavior
  58. 4.3. Mie’s nonverbal behavior
  59. 5. Comparison of nonverbal activity of the three non-native speakers
  60. 6. Conclusion
  61. 6. Pragmatic communication strategies
  62. 1. Introduction
  63. 1.1. Communication strategies
  64. 1.2. Pragmatic communication strategies
  65. 2. Questions
  66. 3. General results
  67. 3.1. Question one: Outcomes
  68. 3.2. Question two: Refusal orientation
  69. 3.3. Question three: Strategies
  70. 4. Japanese pragmatic communication strategies
  71. 4.1. Bluntness
  72. 4.2. Indications of linguistic or sociocultural inadequacy
  73. 4.3. Use of the L1
  74. 4.4. Sequential shifts in goal, semantic formula, or content
  75. 4.5. Nonverbal expressions of affect
  76. 5. Conclusion
  77. 7. Searching for common ground
  78. 1. Conversational expectations
  79. 2. Refusal structure
  80. 3. Getting the interaction back “on track”
  81. 3.1. Requests for reasons
  82. 3.2. Unacceptable moves
  83. 3.3. Establishing propositions “in play”
  84. 4. Conclusion
  85. 8. Language use and language learning
  86. 1. Introduction
  87. 2. Second language acquisition, negotiation of meaning and negative evidence
  88. 2.1. Interaction hypothesis
  89. 2.2. Language knowledge
  90. 2.3. Specific kinds of evidence
  91. 2.4. Availability of evidence
  92. 3. Attention and noticing
  93. 4. Interlanguage pragmatics
  94. 4.1. The development of pragmatic knowledge
  95. 4.2. Negotiation of meaning
  96. 5. Conclusion
  97. 9. Epilogue
  98. Appendices
  99. Appendix I
  100. Appendix II
  101. Appendix III
  102. Notes
  103. References
  104. Subject index
  105. Author index