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Publication details [#9868]

Walters, Joel. 1979. Strategies for requesting in Spanish and English: Structural similarities and pragmatic differences. Language Learning 29 (2) : 277–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

requesting, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

Report on recent work in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language, centering on the semantic strategies for the speech act of requesting.