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Author Callies, Marcus.

Title Information highlighting in advanced learner English : the syntax-pragmatics interface in second language acquisition / Marcus Callies.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 186
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 186.
Note Revised ed. of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Philipps-University Marburg, 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.
Contents Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Information highlighting in English; 3. Information structure and information high-lighting in English and German; 4. Pragmatics and information highlighting in SLA research; 5. Research design; 6. Experimental study; 7. Learner-corpus study; 8. Discussion and conclusion; References; Appendices; Index; The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.
Summary This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production and comprehension of specific means of information highlighting in English by native speakers and German learners of English as a foreign language, presenting triangulated experimental and learner corpus data as corroborating evidence. The study focuses on learners' use of discourse-pragmatically moti.
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Subject English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Syntax.
English language -- Study and teaching -- German speakers.
English language -- Study and teaching -- German speakers.
German language -- Syntax.
German language -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- German.
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
German language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
Pragmatics.
Pragmatics.
Second language acquisition.
Second language acquisition.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Callies, Marcus. Information highlighting in advanced learner English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027254313 9027254311 (DLC) 2009007777 (OCoLC)313017454
ISBN 9789027289483 (electronic book)
9027289484 (electronic book)
1282104322
9781282104327
9027254311 (alkaline paper)
9789027254313 (alkaline paper)