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Title:
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'J'ai un petit service à te demander...' Zur pragmatischen Entwicklung des Sprechakts 'Aufforderung' bei österreichischen Französisch-Lernenden
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Author:
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Muriel Warga
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Degree Awarded:
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Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
, Department of Romance Languages
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Degree Date:
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2002
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Language Acquisition
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Subject Language(s):
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French
German, Standard
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Director(s):
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Annemarie Peltzer-Karpf
Martin Hummel
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Abstract:
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This dissertation seeks to provide a thorough overview of the relatively new field of interlanguage pragmatics, and to present a new empirical study on foreign language learners’ developing ability to perform the speech act of request. A discourse completion task and a closed role-play are used to compare the requests of native speakers of French, native speakers of Austrian German, and three levels of Austrian learners of French. The data are analyzed using an adapted version of the Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP).
The study found that although some of the examined aspects move in the direction of the French native speaker norm with increasing proficiency, most of the patterns converge towards the norm of the first language (German). This indicates that a higher level of linguistic competence does not guarantee a better pragmatic competence. The results of this study clearly suggest that foreign language learners need (meta)pragmatic instruction for developing most aspects of their pragmatic abilities, as, compared to a second language environment, opportunities for learning pragmatics in foreign language settings are much more restricted.
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