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Through a glass, darkly: When learner pragmatics is misconstrued

Hassall, Tim

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The notion of a second language native-speaker target for learners of pragmatics has been criticised on several counts. However, one problem with this target seems to have escaped notice: when a learner behaves in a native-like way the native speaker might actually misconstrue this behaviour, because he or she views it through a filter of expectations about how the learner will behave. This claim is illustrated with snippets of ethnographic data on one pragmatic problem: avoiding unwelcome...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorHassall, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:38:07Z
dc.identifier.issn0378-2166
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/77401
dc.description.abstractThe notion of a second language native-speaker target for learners of pragmatics has been criticised on several counts. However, one problem with this target seems to have escaped notice: when a learner behaves in a native-like way the native speaker might actually misconstrue this behaviour, because he or she views it through a filter of expectations about how the learner will behave. This claim is illustrated with snippets of ethnographic data on one pragmatic problem: avoiding unwelcome questions in Indonesian.
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.sourceJournal of Pragmatics
dc.subjectKeywords: Avoiding questions; Indonesian; Interlanguage pragmatics; Pragmatic expectations; Target norm
dc.titleThrough a glass, darkly: When learner pragmatics is misconstrued
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.citationvolume36
dc.date.issued2004
local.identifier.absfor200401 - Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub6263
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationHassall, Timothy, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage997
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage1002
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pragma.2003.09.001
dc.date.updated2015-12-11T09:40:46Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-2342618305
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