Publications

Publication details [#14315]

Ducharme, Daphne and Roger Bernard. 2001. Communication breakdowns: An exploration of contextualization in native and non-native speakers of French. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (6) : 825–847.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | contextualization cue | L2-acquisition

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The results illustrate the instrumental role contextualization cues play in the construction of both context and message. It is concluded that L2-students and their teachers should strive towards a better understanding of contextualization cues.