Publications

Publication details [#56669]

Takimoto, Masahiro. 2012. Assessing the effects of identical task repetition and task-type repetition on learners' recognition and production of second language request downgraders. Intercultural Pragmatics 9 (1) : 71–96.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatic competence | refusing | repetition1 | request | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study argues that identical task repetition fosters more intensive perceptual and mental processing than task-type repetition in Japanese learners of English as a second language's recognition and production of second language request downgraders.