Cognitive Insights into Discourse Markers and Second Language Acquisition
Edited By Iria Bello, Carolina Bernales, Maria Vittoria Calvi and Elena Landone
This volume employs a range of empirical methodologies – including eyetracking, direct observation, qualitative research and corpus analysis – to describe the use of discourse markers in second language acquisition. The variety of different approaches used by the contributors facilitates the observation of correlations between morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of discourse markers and enriches our understanding of the cognitive behaviour of L2 speakers, both in the understanding and production of texts. Some of the essays examine the acquisitional paths of discourse markers in instructional and natural contexts, with a particular focus on situations of language contact and social integration; others describe experimental studies that analyse the cognitive processing of discourse markers in L2 learners. All the contributions aim to offer new insights which will expand and develop existing theoretical claims about this area of study and open up avenues for further research.
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- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2019. X, 256 pp.,18 fig. b/w, 35 tables
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- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction: Insights into Discourse Markers: Cognition and Acquisition (Iria Bello / Carolina Bernales / Maria Vittoria Calvi / Elena Landone)
- Bibliography
- 1 Evidentiality, intersubjectivity and ownership of the information: The evidential utterances with así que and que in Spanish (Eugenia Sainz)
- Introduction
- Theoretical fundamentals for the analysis of the evidentiality
- The evidential utterance introduced by así que: Form and meaning
- The evidential utterance-type with así que compared with the evidential utterance-type with que
- Approaching the evidential function: Subjectivization and strategic justification
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 2 Processing causality in Spanish-speaking L2 English: An experimental approach to the study of therefore (Elisa Narváez García / Lourdes Torres)
- Introduction
- Connectives and causal connectives
- Methodology
- Data collection
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- 3 Pragmatic processing in second language: What can focus operators tell us about cognitive performance in L2? (Olga Ivanova / Iria Bello Viruega)
- Introduction
- Pragmatic processing in L2
- Processing pragmatic scales
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4 Processing focus operators and pragmatic scales: An eye-tracking study on information processing in English L2 (Iria Bello Viruega / Carolina Bernales)
- Introduction
- The focus operator even
- Eye-tracking experiments in Second Language Acquisition
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 5 The discourse markers sí, claro and vale in Spanish as a Foreign Language (Christian Koch / Britta Thörle)
- Introduction
- Sí, claro and vale: Affirmation particles and discourse markers
- Methodology
- Results
- Interlanguage usages of sí, claro and vale on different proficiency levels
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 6 A pilot study on the use of discourse markers in the oral discourse of language learners of Spanish (An Vande Casteele / Kim Collewaert)
- On the concept of ‘discourse markers’
- Discourse markers and second language acquisition
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 7 The appropriation of discourse markers by students of Italian as a Foreign Language in a sequence of action-oriented learning tasks (Marilisa Birello / Roberta Ferroni)
- Introduction
- Action-oriented approach in the textbook Bravissimo!
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 8 Expressing agreement in L2 Italian: Strategies and discourse markers in Spanish learners (Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga)
- Introduction
- The expression of agreement in closely related languages
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Spanish DMs in the learner corpus: The role of code-switching
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 9 Discourse markers, interlanguage level and social integration: The immigrant learners in the Naples area (Patrizia Giuliano / Rosa Russo / Simona Anastasio)
- Introduction
- Previous studies and research goals
- Methodology
- Data analysis and results
- Discourse markers: Percentage and functional evaluations
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Acronyms, abbreviations and symbols
- Bibliography
- Notes on contributors
- Index
7 The appropriation of discourse markers by students of Italian as a Foreign Language in a sequence of action-oriented learning tasks (Marilisa Birello / Roberta Ferroni)
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MARILISA BIRELLO AND ROBERTA FERRONI
7 The appropriation of discourse markers by students of Italian as a Foreign Language in a sequence of action-oriented learning tasks
Introduction
Face-to-face conversation is the result of a collaboration and continuous process of negotiation, which implies the participants’ active involvement in the interaction in order to co-construct the message. Bazzanella compares face-to-face conversation to a piece of fabric ‘in which the contributions from the speaker and the interlocutor(s) are woven together to a point where they almost blend into one another to create one single product’ (Bazzanella 1994: 62, own translation). This fabric, as conversation analysis has masterfully shown (see, among others, Schegloff 1972; Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson 1974), is internally organized by mechanisms that make it an orderly activity governed by its own rules,1 like traffic.2 The conversation flow is characterized by anything but linear turn-taking, being instead broken by a series of linguistic elements, which, together with the ‘words of the body’ (parole del corpo, Poggi 2006:11, own translation),3 work to establish an atmosphere of participation and interest among the participants and contribute to characterizing spoken language as a unique ← 169 | 170 → form of communication.4 More specifically, these elements are phenomena which have been extensively dealt with in conversation analysis (see, among others, Schegloff 1981; Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson 1974), such as: dialogic repetitions,5 appositional beginnings, used by speakers in turn taking;6 self-initiated and other-initiated interruptions;7...
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction: Insights into Discourse Markers: Cognition and Acquisition (Iria Bello / Carolina Bernales / Maria Vittoria Calvi / Elena Landone)
- Bibliography
- 1 Evidentiality, intersubjectivity and ownership of the information: The evidential utterances with así que and que in Spanish (Eugenia Sainz)
- Introduction
- Theoretical fundamentals for the analysis of the evidentiality
- The evidential utterance introduced by así que: Form and meaning
- The evidential utterance-type with así que compared with the evidential utterance-type with que
- Approaching the evidential function: Subjectivization and strategic justification
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 2 Processing causality in Spanish-speaking L2 English: An experimental approach to the study of therefore (Elisa Narváez García / Lourdes Torres)
- Introduction
- Connectives and causal connectives
- Methodology
- Data collection
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- 3 Pragmatic processing in second language: What can focus operators tell us about cognitive performance in L2? (Olga Ivanova / Iria Bello Viruega)
- Introduction
- Pragmatic processing in L2
- Processing pragmatic scales
- Methodology
- Results
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4 Processing focus operators and pragmatic scales: An eye-tracking study on information processing in English L2 (Iria Bello Viruega / Carolina Bernales)
- Introduction
- The focus operator even
- Eye-tracking experiments in Second Language Acquisition
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 5 The discourse markers sí, claro and vale in Spanish as a Foreign Language (Christian Koch / Britta Thörle)
- Introduction
- Sí, claro and vale: Affirmation particles and discourse markers
- Methodology
- Results
- Interlanguage usages of sí, claro and vale on different proficiency levels
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 6 A pilot study on the use of discourse markers in the oral discourse of language learners of Spanish (An Vande Casteele / Kim Collewaert)
- On the concept of ‘discourse markers’
- Discourse markers and second language acquisition
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 7 The appropriation of discourse markers by students of Italian as a Foreign Language in a sequence of action-oriented learning tasks (Marilisa Birello / Roberta Ferroni)
- Introduction
- Action-oriented approach in the textbook Bravissimo!
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 8 Expressing agreement in L2 Italian: Strategies and discourse markers in Spanish learners (Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga)
- Introduction
- The expression of agreement in closely related languages
- Methodology
- Results and discussion
- Spanish DMs in the learner corpus: The role of code-switching
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- 9 Discourse markers, interlanguage level and social integration: The immigrant learners in the Naples area (Patrizia Giuliano / Rosa Russo / Simona Anastasio)
- Introduction
- Previous studies and research goals
- Methodology
- Data analysis and results
- Discourse markers: Percentage and functional evaluations
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Acronyms, abbreviations and symbols
- Bibliography
- Notes on contributors
- Index