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Publication details [#28176]

McCagg, Peter. 1996. If you can lead a horse to water, you don´t have to make it drink: Some comments on reader and writer responsibilities. Multilingua 15 (3) : 239–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

message1, comprehension of | newspaper report | reader | writing

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper rejects Hind's (1987) claim that understanding of Japanese (newspaper) messages requires a greater cognitive effort of the reader than comprehension of English messages does.