Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

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ISBN: 9780582086449 | 0582086442
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Copyright: 1/19/1996

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This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research.

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Background to the understanding project
A social perspective on understanding: some issues of theory and method
Introduction
Identifying understanding and problems of understanding
Understanding and interaction
Understanding and context
Data analysis
Issues of variability
Causes of understanding problems
Introduction
Understanding problems triggered by a single, identifiable element
Understanding problems caused by relative degree of difficulty
Understanding problems caused by indirectness and implicit discourse norms
Managing understanding from a minority perspective
Introduction
The types of problems with understanding
Options the minority interactant can take: avoiding or indicating the problem with understanding
Managing procedures for indicating non-understanding
Face and the management of understanding
Potential for learning
Conclusion
Case studies
Introduction
Berta (Spanish-French)
Tino (Italian-German)
Ergun (Turkish-Dutch)
Santo (Italian-English)
Preventing problems of understanding
Introduction
Some options to prevent non-understanding
Resolving of ignoring problems of understanding: the interviewer's point of view
Joint negotiation of understanding: procedures for managing problems of understanding
Introduction
Classification following unspecific indication or 'symptoms' of non-understanding
Classification following specific indication: explication of lexical meaning
Maximal use of procedures-an example
Taking stock: contexts and reflections
Introduction
Facing upto our methods
Social and discoursal perspective on second language development
A critical perspective
Context and contextualisation
Institutional discourse
Some practical implications
Appendices, References, Index
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Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters

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