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Publication details [#12771]
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana and Hadass Sheffer. 1993. The Metapragmatic Discourse of American-Israeli Families at Dinner. In Kasper, Gabriele and Shoshana Blum-Kulka. Interlanguage Pragmatics. Oxford University Press. pp. 196–223.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This article discusses the unique characteristics of bilingual -U.S. English and Hebrew speaking- families' interlanguage metapragmatic dicourse, as manifested by metacomments on language use in dinner-table conversations. Inter- and intra-group diversity in metapragmatic discourse is commented on.