Face in L2 argumentative discourse: psycholinguistic constraints on the construction of identity
Language, Culture and Identity in Applied Linguistics - Richard Kiely
Doris Dippold [+ ]
University of Surrey
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Doris is Lecturer in German and Programme Director for MA progress in Intercultural Communication with International Business and Communication and International Marketing. She is teaching the following modules: Intercultural Communication (UG), Professional Communication (UG/PG), Teaching Professional Communication (PG), German Business Environment (UG).
After gaining an MA in Germanic and Literatures from the University of Kansas, Doris completed a PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. Before joining the University of Surrey in 2008, she worked as German language tutor and lecturer at the University of Kansas, the University of Science and Technology Shanghai, the University of Southampton and the University of Plymouth.
Description
This chapter uses data from a current study of undergraduate students of German to show how second-language (L2) learners of German do facework in argumentative discourse and explores the impact the psycholinguistic processing implicit in this facework has on their performance.