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Publication details [#48710]

Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh. 2008. Criticizing in an L2: Pragmatic strategies used by Vietnamese EFL learners. Intercultural Pragmatics 5 : 41–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interlanguage | pragmatics | second language acquisition | speech act

Language as a subject

English, Australian | Vietnamese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article explores the pragmatic strategies employed by Vietnamese English as a foreign language learners when criticizing in English, in order to illuminate the pragmatic features of this under-researched speech act.