Publications

Publication details [#45884]

Warga, Muriel and Ursula Schölmberger. 2007. The acquisition of French apologetic behavior in a study abroad context. Intercultural Pragmatics 4 (2) : 221–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | interlanguage | L2-acquisition | pragmatic competence | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This paper explores how a period of immersion in the target language community affects the pragmatic development of French as a foreign language learning Austrians in the field of apologies.