Aprendre a utilitzar una llengua
ISSN: 0214-9141
Year of publication: 1990
Volume: 2
Pages: 19-25
Type: Article
More publications in: Sintagma: Revista de lingüística
Abstract
With this paper the author sets out to show that it is possible to introduce sociolinguistic explanations even at the initial stages of the learning of a second language. By taking three conversational extracts from a well-known textbook for the teaching of English as a foreign language, the paper presents and exemplifies three aspects that should be taken into account: (i) different cultural assumptions about the situation and about the appropiate behaviours and intentions within it, (ii) different ways of structuring information, and (iii) different use of linguistic conventions.