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Publication details [#11879]

Hinkel, Eli. 1997. Indirectness in L1 and L2 Academic Writing. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (3) : 361–386. 16 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | corpus analysis | first language | indirectness | second language

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Indonesian | Japanese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A comparison of L1 and L2 English speakers' use of indirectness devices in academic writing shows that nonnative speakers use specific devices more frequently than native speakers do, while other devices are equally used by both subject groups.