Bøger af Gabriele Kasper

Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers' talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities. Based on data collected on Danish, English, Hawai'i Creole, Indonesian, and Japanese as target languages, the contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic knowledge, interaction, and L2 learning outside and inside of educational settings.

Provides a variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives on misunderstanding within different types of spoken interaction/discourse - such as in news media interviews, legal and medical situations, communication by second language learners and between different cultural and social groups, and mistakes in everyday conversation.

This volume comprises a collection of essays by experts in the forefront of interlanguage study. Each contribution reports on the current state of study and development in a wide variety of fields. Contributors are drawn from Europe, North America and Israel.