Number of found records: 31
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KASPER, Gabriele |
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Four perspectives on L2 pragmatic development |
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An increasing body of research examines the development of L2 learners' pragmatic ability (cf. reviews by Kasper & Schmidt, 1996; Bardovi-Harlig, 1999a; Kasper & Rose, 1999). While some earlier longitudinal studies chart observed acquisitional patterns descriptively without relating them to an explanatory framework of second language development (e.g., Ellis, 1992; Sawyer, 1992), other investigations are explicitly guided by -in the rare case, even designed to test - theoretical approaches to L2 learning. Since a fair amount of research under different theoretical orientations now exists, it is timely to take stock of what these approaches have contributed to our understanding of L2 pragmatic development. Although compared to studies of L2 grammatical development, the history of research on L2 pragmatic development is neither long nor particularly rich, we can discern three phases of emphasis. A few early studies were conducted as explicit test cases of Canale and Swain's (1980) framework of communicative competence (e.g., Walters, 1980; Schmidt, 1983) and thus focused on the interdependence of the different competencies. The second phase of developmental L2 pragmatics examined learners' pragmatic ability as an independent component (e.g., Hassall, 1997). In order to account for acquisitional patterns, theoretical perspectives from child language acquisition and grammatical development in SLA have been extended to the explanation of L2 pragmatic learning. The most prominent of these perspectives are information processing hypotheses, sociocognitive theory, and language socialization theory, each of which will be discussed in this paper. Recently, a concurrent interest in the relationship of pragmatic and grammatical knowledge and their development has reemerged. (AU) |
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information processing; sociocognitive theory; language socialization theory |
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LAHTINEN, Timo |
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Automatic indexing: an approach using an index term corpus and combining linguistic and statistical methods |
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Citeseer.IST: Scientific Literature Digital Library, 2000. |
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On line (05/05/2005) |
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This thesis discusses the problems and the methods of finding relevant information in large collections of documents. The contribution of this thesis to this problem is to develop better content analysis methods which can be used to describe document content with index terms. Index terms can be used as meta-information that describes documents, and that is used for seeking information. The main point of this thesis is to illustrate the process of developing an automatic indexer which analyses. (DB) |
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automatic indexing; content analysis; linguistic methods; statistical methods |
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LIDDY, Elizabeth DuRoss |
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The discourse-level structure of empirical abstracts: an exploratory study |
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Information Processing and Management, 1991, vol. 27, n.1, pp. 55-81 |
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On line (06/05/2005)(Only UGR) |
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: Free-text retrieval is less effective than it might be because of its dependence on notions that evolved with controlled vocabulary representation and searching. An exploratory study was conducted to determine whether information abstracts reporting on empirical work do possess a predictable discource-level structure and whether there are lexical clues that reveal this structure. Results indicate that expert abstractors do possess an internalised structure of empirical abstracts, whose components and relations were comfirmed repeatedly over the tasks. (AU) |
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Information-storage-and-retrieval; Information work; Subject indexing; Online information retrieval; Computerised-information-retrieval; Searching-; Computerized information storage and retrieval; Strategies-; Terms-; Natural language; Free-text-searching |
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McCARTHY, J.; SATO, M.; HAYASHI, T.; IGARASHI, S. |
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On the Model Theory of Knowledge. |
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Stanford University, (197?) |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Another language for expressing ``knowing that" is given together with axioms and rules of inference and a Kripke type semantics. The formalism is extended to time-dependent knowledge. Completeness and decidability theorems are given. The problem of the wise men with spots on their foreheads and the problem of the unfaithful wives a are expressed in the formalism and solved. (AU) |
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Information processing; information representation |
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