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Publication details [#58456]

Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2014. Pragmatic failure, epistemic injustice and epistemic vigilance. Language & Communication 39 : 34–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | pragmatic competence | prejudice | second language acquisition | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study argues that hearers' pragmatic-hermeneutical injust stereotyping evoked by speakers' second or foreign language pragmatic incompetence, could be evaded or conquered if hearers' alertness elicited a processing strategy change from guileless to wary optimism.