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Publication details [#25880]

Romero Trillo, Jesús. 2002. The pragmatic fossilization of discourse markers in non-native speakers of English. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 769–784.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

The present corpus-driven analaysis shows the differencese in the use of discourse markers between adult and child native and non-native speakers of English, which may lead to pragmatic failures in communication. It is argued that 'pragmatic fossilization' is an element to consider in second language teaching and learning.