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Publication details [#39390]

Holmes, Janet. 1988. Doubt and Certainty in ESL Textbooks. Applied Linguistics 9 (1) : 21–44.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

certainty | L2-acquisition | politeness | pragmatics | textbook

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper uses data on the relative frequencies of a wide range of lexical items expressing doubt and certainty in written and spoken corpuses, to evaluate how efficiently they are included in some well-known English as a Second Language textbooks.