LINGUIST List 21.2686 Tue Jun 22 2010 Books: Applied Linguistics/Sociolinguistics: van Ierland Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Grammatical features influencing information structure: van Ierland Message 1: Grammatical features influencing information structure: van Ierland Date: 15-Jun-2010 From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl> Subject: Grammatical features influencing information structure: van Ierland E-mail this message to a friend Title: Grammatical features influencing information structure Subtitle: The case of L1 and L2 Dutch and English Series Title: LOT Dissertation Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT                 http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Author: Suzan van Ierland Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930201 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.28 Abstract: All people tell stories. But what happens, when you're asked to tell a story in a language that is not yours? In this dissertation I research storytelling and event retelling by speakers of Dutch and English, in their native language, but also in their second language. I pay special attention to those aspects of grammar that could influence information structure. The experiments in this thesis show that word order and progressive aspect are important grammatical features for deciding how to structure your information. However, the results also show that even though native speakers of English and Dutch behave very differently, it is possible for some very advanced learners to perform native-like in their second language. Theoretically, these results present evidence against Levelt's implication that language-specific requirements only come into play at the microplanning level. Slobin's model of 'thinking for speaking' cannot explain the results either. Therefore, in the final chapter, an adapted model of language production is proposed. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics                             Anthropological Linguistics                             Language Structure                             Second Language Acquisition Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)                             English (eng) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48852 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 22-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.