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Learning Politeness - Disagreement in a Second Language (Paperback, New edition)
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Learning Politeness - Disagreement in a Second Language (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, 24
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This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about
managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in
New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to
produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during
oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a
combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis,
the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the
learners, and describes how their competence developed over a
ten-week period. The book outlines some points of cultural
divergence which may have influenced the direction and the extent
of the learners' pragmatic development. It also sheds light on the
language-acquisition strategies utilised by the learners during
their tenure in the host culture. Most crucially, the book
illuminates patterns of directness and indirectness in the
learners' selected disagreement strategies. These patterns
challenge the generally accepted theory that politeness always
increases with social distance.
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