Publications

Publication details [#12584]

Murphy, Bett and Joyce Neu. 1996. My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining. 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. 191–216.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | complaining | L2-acquisition | speech act

Language as a subject

English, American | Korean

Annotation

This study isolates the components of the complaint speech act set as performed by American native speakers and by Korean non-native speakers of English and analyzes how the former perceive the latter's performance.