Title: Role of Transfer in Discourse: From the Perspectives of Politeness and Coherence
Abstract:There has been a lot of controversy in deciding whether language transfer takes place at the level of discourse. Most of the authors refute the concept of 'discourse transfer' but there are few undeni...There has been a lot of controversy in deciding whether language transfer takes place at the level of discourse. Most of the authors refute the concept of 'discourse transfer' but there are few undeniably important researchers whose observations and beliefs are contradictory. This paper intends to give a brief idea of the concept of discourse, its analysis and finally support the notion in light of some significant researches that discourse transfer does takes place in second language acquisition, be it positive or negative. This paper also intends to emphasize on two areas of discourse, politeness and coherence, which affect what has been called 'presentation of self'. Any misinterpretation during the comprehension and production due to cross-linguistic differences in discourse in these two particular areas may mistakenly convince the learner that the native speaker is being rude in situations where they are actually behaving appropriately according to their speech community norms. Also, since much of the research on contrastive discourse in the past deals with politeness or coherence, this paper aims to concentrate on these two areas.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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