A cognitive-pragmatic approach to situation-bound utterances

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 605-625

  Kecskés, Istvan ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive mechanisms; Cognitive pragmatic approach; Conceptual fluency; Formulaic expressions; Second language acquisition; Situation bound utterancesst

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034164952     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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