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Publication details [#51087]

Rose, Kenneth R. 2009. Interlanguage pragmatic development in Hong Kong, phase 2. Journal of Pragmatics 41 : 2345–2364.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This second phase cross-sectional research explores secondary school students' Chinese-English interlanguage pragmatic development in Hong Kong, using a questionnaire eliciting requests. Ample evidence of pragmalinguistic, but little evidence of sociopragmatic development was found (only an increased usage of please in requests towards higher social status hearers).