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Publication details [#32106]

Hassall, Tim. 2003. Requests by Australian learners of Indonesian. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (12) : 1903–1928.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interaction | knowledge | L2-acquisition | pragmatic competence | request

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Indonesian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study compares the ways in which Australian learners of Indonesian and Indonesian native speakers perform requests. It is suggested that the main task for second language pragmatics is to acquire control over knowledge rather than knowledge itself.