Making a request for a service in spanish: Pragmatic development in the study abroad setting

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 160-175

  Bataller, Rebeca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Interlanguage pragmatic development; Requests for a service; Second language acquisition; Spanish pragmatics; Study abroad

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956599264     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01065.x     Document Type: Article

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