Second language learners and speech act comprehension

Language Learning

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 595-610

  Holtgraves, Thomas ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Conversation comprehension; Indirect meaning; L2 pragmatics; Pragmatic comprehension; Speech act recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448970246     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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