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Publication details [#56239]

Narita, Ritsuko. 2012. The effects of pragmatic consciousness-raising activity on the development of pragmatic awareness and use of hearsay evidential markers for learners of Japanese as a foreign language. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (1) : 1–29.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evidential utterance | language awareness | metapragmatic awareness | pragmatic competence | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Paying particular attention to hearsay evidential markers, this study argues that pragmatic consciousness-raising (PCR) activities may successfully raise the acquisition of Japanese as a second language (L2) pragmatic skills.