Publications

Publication details [#54813]

Yu, Ming-Chung. 2011. Learning how to read situations and know what is the right thing to say or do in an L2: A study of socio-cultural competence and language transfer. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (4) : 1127–1147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complimenting | interlanguage | language and culture | language transfer | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study explores the interlanguage behavior of Chinese learners of American English, focusing on complimenting in a second language (L2) and the transfer of L1 socio-cultural strategies (e.g. Chinese are less inclined to offer compliments than English) into L2 behavior.