Publications
Publication details [#12137]
Yu, Ming- Chu. 1999. Universalistic and culture-specific perspectives on variation in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language. Pragmatics 9 (2) : 281–312. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
An investigation of the interlanguage behavior of Chinese learners of American English. Focus is on L2 requests in connection with pragmatic L1 difficulties, speech act performance, and universality versus culture-specificity of politeness.