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Publication details [#65760]

Schneider, Klaus P., Friederike Sell, Katrin Renkwitz and Pawel Sickinger. 2019. Measuring pragmatic competence on the functional and lexical level: The development of German high-school students' requests during a stay abroad in Canada. Journal of Pragmatics 146 : 106–120.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function | L2-acquisition | lexical field | pragmatic competence | request

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper collates two methods for sizing pragmatic skill over a stay abroad. The methods diverge in how they catch specific facets of pragmatic skill. Functional assays stress strategic facets of learners' requesting conduct. Evolution is better catched by a collation of learners' lexical material. Verbiage (jawing) amain impacts lexical rates of evolution.