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Production and Perception of Stylistic Variation Along the Continuum of Formality in English as a First and Second Language.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Production and Perception of Stylistic Variation Along the Continuum of Formality in English as a First and Second Language./
Author:	Lasan, Ivan.
Description:	1 online resource (362 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-05A.
Subject:	English as a second language. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29254720click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798834060529

Production and Perception of Stylistic Variation Along the Continuum of Formality in English as a First and Second Language.
Lasan, Ivan.

Production and Perception of Stylistic Variation Along the Continuum of Formality in English as a First and Second Language. - 1 online resource (362 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This research explores production and perception of stylistic variation along the continuum of formality in written English. It looks to contribute to research focused on sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic competence by (1) offering insights into English-dominant individuals' and English learners' understanding of formality, knowledge of stylistic variants, and approach to the expression and perception of formality; (2) demonstrating how English-dominant individuals and English learners create styles with specific degrees of formality and how they perceive degrees of formality; and, (3) reporting English-dominant individuals' and English learners' confidence about their ability to express and perceive formality.To these ends, data for this research were collected in two subsequent phases (i.e., a production and a perception phase), with each drawing on its own set of participants. Each set included three groups of individuals: those who live in Canada and speak English as a dominant language, those who are learning English while embedded in the Canadian context, and those who are learning English as a foreign language in Slovakia. In both phases, questionnaire data were collected to discover participants' understanding of formality and knowledge of stylistic variants. The participants in the production phase composed six e-mail messages in English with a specific degree of formality in mind. The participants in the perception phase rated the formality of 18 of the e-mail messages that had been generated by the participants in the production phase. The findings show that, in contrast to the English-dominant individuals, both groups of English learners were less able to provide specific examples of (in)formal stylistic variants; the preferred use of stylistic variants differed across the three participant groups; and the perceived degrees of formality for half of the e-mail messages differed across the three participant groups. The findings also showed that the English learners felt less confident than did the English-dominant individuals about their ability to express and perceive formality in English. This research concludes that English learners would benefit from instruction that increases their knowledge of salient (in)formal stylistic variants and that raises their awareness of the social, cultural, and personal factors that influence their use in English.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798834060529Subjects--Topical Terms:

516208
English as a second language.
Subjects--Index Terms:

EFLIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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