Interlanguage Pragmatics: Exploring Institutional Talk will be of great interest to both researchers and students of interlanguage pragmatics in applied linguistics, TESOL programs, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics.
Bardovi-Harlig and Hartford (both TESOL and applied linguistics, Indiana U.) present a collection of previously unpublished studies introducing interlanguage pragmatics researchers to "institutional talk" talk that occurs in the course of carrying out an institution's business, usually between an institutional representative and a client. The studies are set in a variety of institutions in which both native and non-native speakers participate in the dialogues, including a university writing center, a university physics laboratory, a variety of secondary school classrooms, an employment agency, and a four-star hotel. Institutional talk is shown to provide a rich source of authentic discourse data which is also characterized by the highly controlled production tasks yielding comparable language samples necessary for interlanguage pragmatics research. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Contents: K. Bardovi-Harlig, B.S. Hartford, Introduction. K. Bardovi-Harlig, B.S. Hartford, Institutional Discourse and Interlanguage Pragmatics Research. J. Williams, Writing Center Interaction: Institutional Discourse and the Role of Peer Tutors. L. Yates, Negotiating an Institutional Identity: Individual Differences in NS and NNS Teacher Directives. J. Kerekes, Before, During, and After the Event: Getting the Job (or Not) in an Employment Interview. C.E. Davies, A.E. Tyler, Discourse Strategies in the Context of Crosscultural Institutional Talk: Uncovering Interlanguage Pragmatics in the University Classroom. E. Tarone, English for Specific Purposes and Interlanguage Pragmatics. T. Gibbs, Using Moves in the Opening Sequence to Identify Callers in Institutional Settings. K. Bardovi-Harlig, B.S. Hartford, Practical Considerations.
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Beverly S. Hartford
