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Publication details [#12766]

Olshtain, Elite and Liora Weinbach. 1993. Interlanguage Features of the Speech Act of Complaining. In Kasper, Gabriele and Shoshana Blum-Kulka. Interlanguage Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. pp. 108–122.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
complaining | interlanguage | speech act
Language as a subject
English, American | English, British | Hebrew | Moroccan | Rumanian | Russian

Annotation

This study of interlanguage features of speech act behavior focusing on the inherently face-threatening act of complaining, exhibits interesting deviations in learners' interlanguage from native speakers' norms.