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Publication details [#46177]

Terraschke, Agnes. 2007. Use of general extenders by German non-native speakers of English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 45 (2) : 141–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | dyadic interaction | extension | L2-acquisition | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

Drawing on a corpus of recorded dyadic interactions between nearstrangers, this paper explores and compares general extender usage by native New Zealand English and native German speakers with regard to their forms and frequencies.