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Houck, Noël and Susan M. Gass. 1996. Non-native refusals: A methodological perspective. In Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 45–64.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | interlanguage | refusing | speech act theory

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

To elucidate methodological issues in non-native speech act research, this article studies refusals in interlanguage pragmatics, focusing on production data from discourse completion and role-play. Three 'new' classes of acts, i.e. confirmation, request for clarification and agreement, are hereby identified.