Learning how to read situations and know what is the right thing to say or do in an L2: A study of socio-cultural competence and language transfer

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1127-1147

  Yu, Ming chung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compliments; Cross cultural pragmatics; Interlanguage pragmatics; Naturally occurring data; Sociolinguistic competence; Speech acts

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551611312     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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