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Publication details [#57419]

Lee, Hanjung. 2013. The influence of social situations on fluency difficulty in Korean EFL learners’ oral refusals. Journal of Pragmatics 50 (1) : 168–186.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and society | language proficiency | politeness | refusing | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores fluency trouble -found to result from cognitive and socio-linguistic factors- in Korean EFL learners’ oral refusals by investigating the effect of social factors like power and social distance on production speed and appropriateness scores.