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

Bremer, Katharina, Roberts, Celia, Vasseur, Marie-Therese, S

ISBN 10: 1138836044 / ISBN 13: 9781138836044

Published by Routledge, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters (Language In Social Life)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138836044
• ISBN 13: 9781138836044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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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.

About the Author

Katharina Bremer, Celia Roberts, Marie-Therese Vasseur, Margaret Simnot, Peter Broder