Pragmatic accent: Sociolinguistic and pragmalinguistic examples
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2020-12-15
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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Abstract
In this chapter, it is postulated that foreign language users develop a pragmatic accent,
which refers to the systematic occurrence of selected pragmatic features in their performance
of communication functions in the target language. In the specification of this
term, I refer to two related conceptualizations, one by Scarcella (1992) and the other by Yule
(1996). I apply the expression coined by Yule to refer to a phenomenon which is parallel to
Scarcella’s discourse accent. In order to substantiate this concept, in later sections of this
chapter, first, a summary of the interlanguage pragmatic competence research which I
conducted is presented. This empirical endeavour showed that even advanced Polish EFL
speakers do not fully approximate the native speaker model and instead retain in their
pragmatic output a set of pragmatic features which enables their easy identification as nonnative
users. In the subsequent sections, the title concept is further exemplified by means of
evidence coming from research reports offered by other researchers or coming from other
languages.
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UAM Poznań
Keywords
pragmatic accent, pragmatic overgeneralization, pragmatic transfer, estimation of future social distance, camaraderie
Citation
Angewandte Linguistik – Neue Herausforderungen und Konzepte, 2020, pp. 57-73
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978-3-8471-1186-3