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    Relevance Theory and the in second language acquisition

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    Authors
    Žegarac, Vladimir
    Issue Date
    2004-07-01
    Subjects
    relevance theory
    second language acquisition
    
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    Abstract
    This article considers the implications of Sperber and Wilson's (1986/95) Relevance Theory for the acquisition of English the by second language (L2) learners whose first language (L1) does not have an article system. On the one hand, Relevance Theory provides an explicit characterization of the semantics of the, which suggests ways of devising more accurate guidelines for teaching/learning than are available in current textbooks. On the other hand, Relevance Theoretic assumptions about human communication together with some effects of transfer from L1 provide the. basis for a number of predictions about the types of L2 learners' errors in the use of the. I argue that data from previous research (Trenkić, 2002) lend support to these predictions, and I try to show that examples drawn from the data I have collected provide evidence for the view that L2 learning is not influenced only by general pragmatic principles and hypotheses about L2 based on transfer from L1, but that learners also devise and test tacit hypotheses which are idiosyncratic to them.
    Citation
    Žegarac V (2004) 'Relevance Theory and the in second language acquisition', Second Language Research, 20 (3), pp.193-211.
    Publisher
    SAGE
    Journal
    Second Language Research
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623676
    DOI
    10.1191/0267658304sr237oa
    Additional Links
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1191/0267658304sr237oa
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0267-6583
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1191/0267658304sr237oa
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