Learning to Request in a Second Language
Subtitle: A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics (Second Language Acquisition 2)
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781853596124
Subjects: Bilingualism & multilingualism; Language acquisition; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Linguistics; Translating & Interpreting; Acquisition; English language; Interlanguage (Language learni; Interlanguage (Language learning); Pragmatics; Second language acquisition
Description: This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven-year old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees.