Learning to Request in a Second Language : : A Study of Child Interlanguage Pragmatics / / Machiko Achiba.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Achiba, Machiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables, Figures and Appendices --; Summary --; Acknowledgements --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. A Review of the Literature --; Chapter 3. Methodology --; Chapter 4. Development of Request Realisation --; Chapter 5. Requestive Hints --; Chapter 6. Variation in Use: Request Goals --; Chapter 7. Variation in Use: Addresses --; Chapter 8. Modification --; Chapter 9. Summary and Conclusions --; References --; Appendices --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781853596131; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781853596131
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Machiko Achiba.

This book examines the acquisition of requests in English by a seven- year-old Japanese girl during her 17-month residence in Australia. The study focuses on the linguistic repertoire available to the child as she attempts to make requests and vary these to suit different goals and addressees. This book helps unravel features of pragmatic development in the child's interlanguage, a subject about which we yet know very little.