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Title: Foot in mouth disease : exploring cross-cultural miscommunication
Related: Journal of applied foreign languages, Vol. 5, p.123-134
Publisher: National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
Date: 2006
Author/Creator: Moore, Stephen
Description: This paper explores the issue of cross-cultural communication through examining data of a variety of non-native English speakers’ experiences using English in Australia. The data are rich in explanatory power not only because they represent authentic encounters of non-native English speakers in an English-speaking environment, but also because the encounters are decipherable through the application of pragmatic theories of language use. Various examples are provided to illustrate the range of cross-cultural misunderstandings and to explore how such issues might be addressed in a language classroom. Taiwanese teachers and students of English will find in these accounts similarities with their own English language learning experiences. The paper attempts to enhance their understanding of key issues in pragmatic competence such as Grice’s maxims, politeness theory and cross-cultural pragmatic failure.
Description: 12 page(s)
Subject Keyword: speech act
Subject Keyword: cooperative principle
Subject Keyword: politeness
Subject Keyword: pragma-linguistic failure
Subject Keyword: socio-pragmatic failure
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/83949
Identifier: ISSN:1816-6415
Identifier: mq-rm-2006001305
Language: eng

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