Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters (Language In Social Life) - Hardcover

Broeder, Peter; Bremer, Katharina; Roberts, Celia; Vasseur, M.-T. (Department Of Linguistics University Rene Descartes Paris V France); Simonot, Margaret (Department Of Arts Law And Social Sciences Islington College)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138836044 ISBN 13: 9781138836044

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research.

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About the Author

Peter Broeder is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University where his research involves unravelling processes of language change among ethnic minority groups.
Jaap Murre is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Previously he worked as a scientist at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. Dr. Murre also heads a research group sponsored by a PIONIER grant from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Review

"This is another outstanding text in Longman's Language in Social Life Series. It should be purchased and read at the earliest possible opportunity."International Journal of Bilingualism"Anyone interested in setting up a research project on cultural pragmatics...will find everything they have ever wanted to know in Achieving Understanding. This is a substantial volume...because of the breadth and length of the study."ELT Journal"A well-conceived research design, an interesting perspective, and a data-driven approach make 'Achieving Understanding' a thorough exploration of its topics. It will certainly be of interest to researchers in intercultural communication, critical linguistics, and second language acquisition, but specialists in (mis)understanding will find it indispensable....the authors are to be commended for providing not only a well-crafted design, but also a theory that has enormous heuristic potential."Discourse and Society

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138836044
• ISBN 13: 9781138836044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288