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Publication details [#31864]

Basham, C. and Patricia B. Kwachka. 1990. Literacy acts and cultural artifacts: On extensions of English modals. Journal of Pragmatics 14 (3) : 413–429.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | language and culture | pragmatic implication | writing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The authors contend that several distinctive strategies of qualification in the English second language compositions of Eskimo students, especially those which extend the range of English modals, pertain to obligatory pragmatic perspectives of the Eskimo culture.