Negotiating structure and culture: L2 learners' realization of L2 compliment-response sequences in talk-in-interaction

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2025-2050

  Huth, Thorsten ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American English; Compliment responses; German; Language teaching; Pragmatic transfer; Second language acquisition; Sequences; Talk in interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750623979     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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