| Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters Contributor(s): Broeder, Peter (Author), Bremer, Katharina (Author), Roberts, Celia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0582086442 ISBN-13: 9780582086449 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Language in Social Life |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.47" W x 8.49" (0.71 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |