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    Relevance theory and redundancy phenomena in second language learners' written English discourse: An interlanguage pragmatics perspective

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    Author
    Karasawa, Sachie
    Issue Date
    2001
    Keywords
    Education, Language and Literature.
    Language, Linguistics.
    Advisor
    Wildner-Bassett, Mary E.
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    The purpose of this study was to contribute to a better understanding of nonnative English speaking students' interlanguage pragmatics in written discourse. It examined whether the types of redundancy found in second language (L2) learners' written English discourse may be explained by a lack of pragmatic knowledge, and used the theoretical framework of Sperber and Wilson's (1986) Relevance Theory. The particular type of pragmatic knowledge examined was the appropriate use of contextual information assumed to be manifest between the writer (i.e. the student) and the reader (i.e. the instructor). The subjects were 40 nonnative (NNS) and 34 native (NS) English speaking college students enrolled in freshman composition courses. They wrote essays on two topics that were selected carefully to manipulate the degrees of mutually manifest contextual information. The introduction section of each essay was submitted to an initial quantitative analysis. The results indicated that: (1) The mean length of the NNS essays was greater than that of the NS essays on both topics, and the difference on topic one reached a statistically significant level (p < 0.05), (2) The difference between the mean length of the NS essays on topics one and two was statistically significant (topic one
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    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Graduate College
    Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
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    University of Arizona
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