Publications

Publication details [#30342]

Kontra, Miklós. 1993. Communicative interference and failure: a study of Hungarian Americans. ITL 101-102 : 79–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | communicative failure | language use | language variation

Language as a subject

Hungarian

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper examines Standard Hungarian-American Hungarian conversations for various kinds of interference, including grammatical errors, pragmatic failures and social errors, that eventually result in communication breakdown