From "Sorry very much" to "I'm ever so sorry:" Acquisitional patterns in L2 apologies by Catalan learners of English

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 287-315

  Dalmau, Maria Sabaté ^a   Gotor, HortèNsia Curell ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249146557     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IP.2007.014     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. 2003. Understanding the role of grammar in the acquisition of L2 pragmatics. In Pragmatic Competence and Foreign Language Teaching, Alicia Martinez Flor, Esther Usó Juan and Ana Fernández Guerra (eds.), 25-44. Castelló de 1a Plana: Publicacions de 1a Universitat Jaume I.
2. Barron, Anne. 2003. Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning How to Do Things with Words in a Study Abroad Context. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
3. Bassols, Margarida. 2002. Les claus de 1a pragmàtica [The Keys of Pragmatics]. Vic: Eumo Editorial.
4. Bergman, Marc L. and Gabriele Kasper. 1993. Perception and performance in native and normative apology. In Interlanguage Pragmatics, Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), 82-107. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House and Gabriele Kasper (eds.). 1989. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.
6. Boxer, Diana. 1993. Complaints as positive strategies: What the learners need to know. Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Quarterly 27 (2): 277-299.
7. -. 1996. Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech act analysis: The case of complaints. In Speech Acts across Cultures: Challenges to Communication in Second Language, Susan M. Gass and Joyce Neu (eds.), 217-239. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
8. Brown, Penelope and Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness. Some Universals in Language Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Carrell, Patricia L. and Beverly H. Konneker. 1981. Politeness: comparing native and nonnative judgements. Language Learning 31 (1): 17-30.
10. Clyne, Michael, Martin Ball and Deborah Neil. 1991. Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns. Multilingua 10 (3): 251-273.
11. Cohen, Andrew D. 1996. Developing the ability to perform speech acts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18 (2): 253-267.
12. -. 2005. Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts. Intercultural Pragmatics 2 (3): 275-301.
13. Cohen, Andrew D. and Elite Olshtain. 1981. Developing a measure of sociocultural competence: the case of apology. Language Learning 31 (1): 113-134.
14. Cohen, Andrew D. Elite Olshtain and David S. Rosenstein. 1986. Advanced EFL apologies: what remains to be learned?. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 62 (2): 51-74.
15. Coulmas, Florian. 1981. Poison to soul. Thanks and apologies contrastively viewed. In Conversational Routine: Explorations in Stanardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech, Florian Coulmas (ed.), 69-91. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton de Gruyter.
16. Curell i Gotor, Hortènsia and Maria Sabaté i Dalmau (in press a). The production of apologies by proficient Catalan learners of English: sociopragmatic failures and cultural interference. In Studies in Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Manuel Padilla Cruz, Pilar Garcés Conejos, Reyes Gómez Morón and Luis Fernández Anaya (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
17. -(in press b). Native judgements of L2 learners' pragmatic transfers: the case of apologies. In Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, Vol. 2: Cross-Cultural Communication, Translation Studies and Multilingual Terminology, Rita Temmerman, Jeroen Darquennes and Frank Boers (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
18. Ellis, Rod. 1992. Learning to communicate in the classroom. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 14 (1): 1-23.
19. -. 1994. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
20. Ferguson, Charles A. 1981. The structure and use of politeness formulas. In Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech, Florian Coulmas (ed.), 21-35. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton de Gruyter.
21. Fraser, Bruce. 1981. On apologising. In Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech, Florian Coulmas (ed.), 258-271. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton de Gruyter.
22. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar. 2006. Interlanguage Pragmatics: A response to Andrew Cohen's "Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts" published in Vol. 2, No. 3, of Intercultural Pragmatics. Intercultural Pragmatics 3 (2): 213-223.
23. Garcia, Carmen. 1989. Apologising in English: politeness strategies used by native and nonnative speakers . Multilingua 8 (1): 3-20.
24. Gershenson, Olga. 2003. Misunderstanding between Israelis and Soviet immigrants: Linguistic and cultural factors. Multilingua 22: 275-290.
25. Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behaviour. Garden City, New York: Anchor & Doubleday.
26. Hill, Thomas. 1997. The Development of Pragmatic Competence in an EFL Context. Ph.D. diss., Temple University, Philadelphia.
27. Hinkel, Eli. 1999. Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
28. Holmes, Janet. 1990. Apologizing in New Zealand English. Language in Society 19 (2): 155-199.
29. House, Juliane. 1989. Politeness in English and German: The functions of Please and Bitte. In Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Juliane House and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), 96-119. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.
30. Johnston, Bill, Gabriele Kasper and Steven Ross. 1998. Effect of rejoinders in production questionnaires. Applied Linguistics 19 (2): 157-182.
31. Kasanga, Luanga A. 2003. I'm asking for a pen: Framing of requests in black South African English. In Meaning Through Language Contrast. Vol. 2, Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner (eds.), 213-235. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
32. Kasper, Gabriele. 1992. Pragmatic transfer. Second Language Research 8 (3): 203-231.
33. -. 2000. Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development (NFLRC Net Work #19) [online], Honolulu, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center. Retrieved [09.03.2006] from the World Wide Web: http://www.nflrc.hawaii.Edu/NetWork/NW19/NW19.pdf.
34. -. 2004. Speech acts in (inter)action: repeated questions. Intercultural Pragmatics 1 (1): 125-133.
35. Kasper, Gabriele and Shoshana Blum-Kulka (eds.). 1993. Interlanguage Pragmatics. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press.
36. Kasper, Gabriele and Merete Dahl. 1991. Research methods in interlanguage pragmatics. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 13: 215-247.
37. Kasper, Gabriele and Kenneth R. Rose. 1999. Pragmatics and SLA. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 19: 81-104.
38. -. 2002. Pragmatic Development in a Second Language. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
39. Kasper, Gabriele and Richard Schmidt. 1996. Developmental issues in interlanguage pragmatics. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18: 149-169.
40. Leech, Geoffrey N. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. London/New York: Longman.
41. Locher, Miriam A. and Richard J. Watts. 2005. Politeness theory and relational work. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 1: 9-33.
42. Maeshiba, Naoko, Naoko Yoshinaga, Gabriele Kasper and Steven Ross. 1996. Transfer and proficiency in interlanguage apologizing. In Speech Acts Across Cultures: Challenges to Communication in a Second Language, Susan M. Gass and Joyce Neu (eds.), 155-187. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
43. Márquez Reiter, Rosina (ed.). 2000. Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A Contrastive Study of Requests and Apologies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
44. Márquez Reiter, Rosina. 2001. The case of apologies in English and Spanish. In Perspectivas Recientes Sobre el Discurso; Recent Perspectives on Discourse, Ana I. Moreno and Vera Cowell (eds.). Secretariado de Publicaciones y Medios Audiovisuales AESLA: León (Universidad de León).
45. Martinez Flor, Alicia, Esther Usó Juan and Ana Fernández Guerra (eds.) 2003. Pragmatic Competence and Foreign Language Teaching. Castelló de 1a Plana: Publications de 1a Universitat Jaume I.
46. Meier, Ardith J. 1998. Apologies: what do we know? International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8 (2): 215-231.
47. -. 2003. Posting the banns: A marriage of pragmatics and culture in foreign and second language pedagogy and beyond. In Pragmatic Competence and Foreign Language Teaching, Martinez Flor, Alicia, Esther Usó Juan and Ana Fernández Guerra (eds.), 185-210. Castelló de 1a Plana: Publicacions de 1a Universitat Jaume I.
48. -. 2004. Conflict and the power of apologies. Philologie im Netz (PhiN) [online] 30. Retrieved [02/02/2007] from the world Wide Web: http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin30/p30tl.htm.
49. Mey, Jacob L. 2004. Between culture and pragmatics: Scylla and Charybdis? The precarious condition of intercultural pragmatics. Intercultural Pragmatics 1 (1): 27-48.
50. Mir, Montserrat. 1992. Do we all apologize the same? An empirical study on the act of apologizing by Spanish speakers learning English. Pragmatics and Language Learning 3: 1-19.
51. Olshtain, Elite. 1983. Sociocultural competence and language transfer: the case of the apology. In Language Transfer and Language Learning, Susan Gass and Larry Selinker (eds.), 232-249. Rowley, MA: Newbuy House.
52. -. 1989. Apologies across languages. In Cross Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Juliane House and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), 155-173. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.
53. Owen, Marion. 1983. Apologies and Remedial Interchanges: A Study of Language Use in Social Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
54. Payrató, Lluís. 2003. Pragmàtica, discurs i Llengua Oral. Introducciό a l'anàlisi funcional de textos [Pragmatics, Dicourse and Spoken Language. Introduction to Functional Text Analysis]. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
55. Pérez i Parent, Montserrat. 2002. The production of requests by Catalan learners of English: Situational and proficiency effects. Atlantis 24 (2): 147-168.
56. Rose, Kenneth R. 1992. Speech acts and questionnaires: the effect of hearer response. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (1): 49-62.
57. Rose, Kenneth R. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.). 2001. Pragmatics in Language Teaching. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press.
58. Searle, John R. 1976. A classification of illocutionary acts. Language and Society 5: 1-23.
59. Takahashi, Satomi. 1996. Pragmatic transferability. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18: 189-223.
60. -. 2005. Noticing in task performance and learning outcomes: a qualitative analysis of instructional effects in interlanguage pragmatics. System 33 (3): 437-461.
61. Tatsuki, Donna Hurst. 2000. If my complaints could passions move: An interlanguage study of aggression. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (7): 1003-1017.
62. Thomas, Jenny. 1983. Cross-cultural pragmatic failure. Applied Linguistics 4: 91-112.
63. Trosborg, Anna. 1995. Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints and Apologies. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
64. Vanderveken, Daniel. 1991. Meaning and Speech Acts. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
65. White, Ron. 1993. Saying please: Pragmalinguistic failure in English interaction. English Language Teaching (ELT) Journal 47 (3): 193-202.