LINGUIST List 22.2278 Mon May 30 2011 Books: Applied Ling/Lang Acquisition/Pragmatics/Socioling: Wang Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners: Wang Message 1: Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners: Wang Date: 30-May-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners: Wang E-mail this message to a friend Title: Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 207 Published: 2011 Publisher: John Benjamins                 http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26amp%3Bbns%20207 Author: Vincent X. Wang Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286802 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027286802 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256119 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256119 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256119 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00 Abstract: Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population - Chinese- speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A range of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study. Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics                             Language Acquisition                             Pragmatics                             Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=56007 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/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Morgan & Claypool Publishers 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 Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics 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 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 University of Nebraska Press Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 30-May-2011       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.