Pragmatics and Language Learning, Volume 4 / Lawrence F. Bouton, Ed. and Yamuna Kachru, Ed.

The selection of papers from the 6th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning (Urbana, Illinois, April 1992) include: "Discourse Markers Across Language" (Bruce Fraser); "Conjunction and Causality: Pragmatics and the Lexicon" (Yael Ziv); "Situated Discourse: The Sociocultural Context of Conversation in a Second Language" (David P. Shea); "Transferability of L1 Indirect Strategies to L2 Contexts" (Satomi Takahashi); "A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Requestive Speech Act Realization Patterns in Persian and American English" (Zohreh Eslamirasekh); "Closing Kiswahili Conversations: The Performance of Native and Non-Native Speakers" (Alwiya S. Omar); "The Use of Lexical Certainty Modifiers by Non-Native (Finnish) and Native Speakers of English" (Tarja Nikula); "Refining the DCT: Comparing Open Questionnaires and Dialogue Completion Tasks" (Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Beverly S. Hartford); "Assessing L2 Sociolinguistic Competence: In Search of Support from Pragmatic Theories" (Robin D. Zuskin); "Exchange Structure in the ESL Classroom: Q-A-C- and Q-CQ-A-C Sequences in Small Group Interaction" (Jane Nicholls); "Discourse Organization and Power: Towards a Pragmatics of Sales Negotiations" (Mirjaliisa Lampi); and "What Do You Include in a Narrative? A Comparison of the Written Narratives of Mexican and American Fourth and Ninth Graders" (Erica McClure, Montserrat Mir, Teresa Cadierno). (MSE)

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