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Publication details [#28774]

Kasanga, Luanga A. 1998. Requests in English by second-language users. ITL 119 - 120 : 123–153.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interlanguage | linguistic competence | pragmatic competence | request | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This contribution to interlanguage pragmatics explores requesting strategies in the spontaneous English discourse of South African university students learning English as a second language.