A study of the Speech Act of Refusals by native speakers of Japanese and learners of Japanese as a second language

As the role of pragmatic competence (the ability to use socially appropriate rules of speaking in a given context) within communicative competence has become a crucial issue in second language (L2) learning, interlanguage (IL) pragmatics, a subdiscipline of L2 research concerned with how nonnative...

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Main Author: Noguchi, Mayumi
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6553