A Video Venture into Pragmatics [microform] : Cashing In on Language / Terence T. T. Pang and Johanna Klassen
- Bib ID:
- 5566658
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Pang, Terence T. T
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED366220
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993
- 55 p.
- Summary:
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The design of a videotape recording for teaching politeness to learners of English as a Second Language is described. The recording attempts a step-by-step analysis of politeness realization markers and acts, especially face-threatening acts, simultaneously mapped onto the paralinguistic features accompanying them. It contains four bank scenes in which visitors request services of a bank teller, a goal-directed transaction that ultimately fails. Two of the scenes focus on an account withdrawal; two pertain to the closing of an account. In each pair of scenes, one teller handles the situation tactfully and one experiences pragmatic failure. Failure is used to de-emphasize the transaction aspect of the scene and point up the interpersonal aspect. Communication acts and problems are analyzed in captions and narrative voice-over. The intent is to suggest alternatives to behavior that leads to pragmatic failure. A transcription of the video scenes and narrative are appended. (MSE)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the International Conference on Language and Content (Hong Kong, December 15-18, 1993).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Banking
- Cultural Education
- English (Second Language)
- Foreign Countries
- Instructional Materials
- Intercultural Communication
- Interpersonal Competence
- Material Development
- Nonverbal Communication
- Pragmatics
- Second Language Instruction
- Second Languages
- Sociocultural Patterns
- Videotape Recordings
- Politeness
- Other authors/contributors:
- Klassen, Johanna, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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