Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk
À propos de cet e-book
Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties.
The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.
À propos de l'auteur
Juliane House is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Hamburg University.
Gabriele Kasper is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of
Hawai'i, and Steven Ross is Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe/Sanda, Japan.
