Achieving Understanding

by Katharina Bremer, Katharina Bremer, Celia Roberts

This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about the function of language as a social practice, adding a new perspective to the psycholinguistic and experimental paradigms, currently existing in second language acquisition research.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 19, 1996