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Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population - Chinese-speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A range of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.

Psycholinguistics --- English language --- Pragmatics --- China --- Language and culture --- Literacy --- Second language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Chinese speakers --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching&delete& --- Chinese speakers. --- Culture --- English language - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers --- English language - Study and teaching - China --- Language and culture - China --- Literacy - China --- Second language acquisition - China

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This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to provide contrastive analysis of English language use and education in economically booming areas such as Shanghai and Guangdong and underdeveloped regions like Xinjiang and Yunnan. With the descriptive, comparative and analytical accounts of different territories ranging from nation-states to small villages in remote areas, theories on the spread of English, second/third language acquisition and identity are challenged with new concepts proposed and established.

Bilingualism. --- English language -- Social aspects -- China. --- English language -- Study and teaching -- China. --- English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers. --- Language acquisition. --- English language --- Bilingualism --- Language acquisition --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Language --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- Social aspects --- Acquisition --- China. --- ELF. --- English. --- language education.