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Publication details [#14234]

Tatsuki, Donna Hurst. 2000. If my complaints could passions move: An interlanguage study of aggression. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (7) : 1003–1017.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

A psychological test measuring aggression was used to analyze complaints by Japanese students in both Japanese and English. The direction of aggression was similar across both languages, the type of aggression in L1 it was extrapeditive yet extrapersistive in L2. Parallels to prior research are drawn.