Publications

Publication details [#56870]

Lee, Cynthia. 2012. “Mum, Sister Hit Me“: Interlanguage Complaint Strategies of Cantonese Learners of English from Childhood to Their Teens. International Review of Pragmatics 4 (1) : 80–109.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complaining | discourse strategy | implementation | interlanguage | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This study explores interlanguage complaint strategy preferences and implementation patterns in child and teenage English as a second language learning Cantonese speakers.