Request patterns by EFL Canarian Spanish students: Contrasting data by languages and research methods
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María-Isabel González-Cruz
María-Isabel González-Cruz is Associate Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she teaches pragmatics. She has published widely on the Anglo-Canarian socio-cultural and linguistic contact with several books, together with a number of articles dealing with issues on aspects of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ELT, and lexicon. Author of the university textbook Pragmatics: A Reader and Workbook (2013), she co-published a study on Anglicismos en el habla juvenil de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2009).
Abstract
This paper reports on empirical research, the purpose of which is fourfold. Firstly, we provide data regarding the realization patterns of requests made by Canarian Spanish students, both orally and in writing, in their mother tongue, a variety of Spanish. Secondly, since these undergraduates study English as a Foreign Language, we also examine the requests they make as non-native speakers of English. Two different methods were adopted for data elicitation, namely, open tape-recorded role-plays and Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs). Thirdly, we obtained a corpus of natural data through field notes taken from an array of real interactional situations in which different people spontaneously formulated requests. Finally, we try to determine to what extent the results in each phase differ depending on the method and the language used, thus contributing to the debate on the validity of research methods.
About the author
María-Isabel González-Cruz is Associate Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she teaches pragmatics. She has published widely on the Anglo-Canarian socio-cultural and linguistic contact with several books, together with a number of articles dealing with issues on aspects of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, ELT, and lexicon. Author of the university textbook Pragmatics: A Reader and Workbook (2013), she co-published a study on Anglicismos en el habla juvenil de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2009).
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- Black as night or as a chimney sweep? Color words and typical exemplars
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