Pragmatic Production of Third Language Learners: A Focus on Request External Modification Items

Safont, Pilar

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“…No other significant difference was detected in the variety and amount of internal modification tools for the data elicited via DCT and role play. The final analysis was run for external modification devices, moves taken to soften the influence of face-threatening acts (Jorda, 2007). The results for the frequency and types of external modification tools detected in both type of tools are given in Table 3 below.…”

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Refusal production via dct and role play

Demirkol

2019

Dil Ve Dilbilimi Çalışmaları Dergisi

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This study was conducted as a twofold investigation. Firstly, it focused on refusal strategies and modification tools employed by a group of Turkish EFL learners. Secondly, it aimed to compare the content of data collected via two different data collection tools popular in interlanguage pragmatics research: Discourse Completion Task and open role plays. As the target speech act, refusals have been the focus of the investigation. The results showed that the participants could use a range of refusal strategies appropriately and the data collected via DCT and role plays were significantly compatible in terms of variety of strategies employed by the participants.

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Refusal production via dct and role play

Demirkol

2019

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“…Thus, this community provides a rich linguistic context but it has not been fully investigated by existing research on multilingualism (Safont, 2007(Safont, , 2015. For the above reasons, multilingualism is a crucial issue at all levels within the community and requires further ongoing research in order to be fully understood in this context.…”

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“…Stemming from L1 pragmatics research, Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) focuses on how the pragmatic component of the construct 'communicative competence' develops in language learners, or, in other words, 'how L2 learners learn how to do things with words over time' in instructed or natural settings (Félix-Brasdefer, 2012: 2801. A great deal of ILP research tends to focus on appropriate requestive behaviour and thus draws heavily on Brown and Levinson's (1987) Politeness Theory (LoCastro, 2003;Safont, 2007). However, despite the corpus of work on ILP (see Alcón, 2008), there is still relatively little work which considers the multilingual background of language learners (Safont, 2012).…”

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“…In this sense, ILP is extended by research on pragmatic competence in multilingual contexts. Such work has so far focused on speech acts (Cenoz, 2003;Safont, 2005aSafont, , 2005bSafont, , 2007, learning context (Dewaele, 2007), and honorifics (Fouser, 1997).…”

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“…Of particular interest to the current study is Safont's work on request modifiers (Safont, 2005a(Safont, , 2005b(Safont, , 2007 which focused on pragmatic production and awareness and showed that L3 learners outperformed L2 learners in this regard; thus providing more evidence of a qualitative difference between bilinguals and multilinguals (Herdina & Jessner, 2002;Jessner, 2006;Hufeisen & Marx, 2007). As mentioned above, previous findings (Safont, 2012: 4512) called for further research on multilingual pragmatics, specifically on 'other speech acts and pragmatic aspects' in order to 'address the complex nature of multilingualism'.…”

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Safont²

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Investigating the Learning of Pragmatics Across Ages and Contexts

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This study puts forward the term 'pragmatic translanguaging' to refer to consciously outcome-oriented language switch motivations. The study focuses on the translanguaging practices of adolescents in their online discourse and explores what Jørgensen (2008) calls the 'designing mind' behind such practices; that is, an awareness of both the practices themselves and the motivations for them. With this in mind, the aim is to ascertain whether online translanguaging practices are intentional and to identify the functions they perform. In order to do so, semi-structured interviews were carried out involving 97 highschool students from the Valencian Community, Spain. The resulting data were analysed to see how the participants described their online translanguaging practices and their reasons for engaging in these practices. The results show translanguaging across a range of digital media and online platforms which is consciously targeted at producing a specific effect and is frequently motivated by awareness of this potential effect; that is, an enhanced pragmatic awareness. Furthermore, the data revealed that online translanguaging practices covered three main pragmatic functions, namely those of marking humour, marking identity, and modifying requests. The study indicates that multilingual adolescents translanguage for more than simple communicative reasons, and that online platforms give them an extended opportunity to engage in multilingual interaction. While recognising the limitations of this purely qualitative study, the authors offer the term 'pragmatic translanguaging' as a focal point for further contributions to this under-researched area of multilingual pragmatics.

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Developing L2 Pragmatic Competence in Study Abroad Contexts

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2018

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Pragmatic Production of Third Language Learners: A Focus on Request External Modification Items

Cited by 5 publications

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