A cross-cultural study of communication during social visits : Japanese ESL students as ethnographers in interlanguage pragmatics research

The present study examines how native speakers of English, Japanese ESL students, and native speakers of Japanese communicate during social visits. It contributes to research in the field of interlanguage pragmatics by: (a) examining speech acts which have not been investigated extensively, (b)...

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Main Author: Carney, Laura Jane
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6386