Routine and Indirection in Interlanguage Pragmatics [electronic resource] / Gabriele Kasper.

A study examined pragmatic routine and indirection as regularly-used strategies for accomplishing linguistic action that, while conventional, can pose problems for non-native speakers. Two kinds of conventionalities are distinguished: conventionality of means (kinds of semantic structure that have a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Kasper, Gabriele
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995.
Subjects:	Contrastive Linguistics. Discourse Analysis. Interlanguage. Language Patterns. Language Research. Linguistic Theory. Pragmatics. Second Languages. Sociocultural Patterns.