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Epistemic Reasoning in Pragmatic Inferencing by Non-Native Speakers: The Case of Scalar Implicatures
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Direct linkZhang, Jun; Wu, Yan – Second Language Research, 2023
Scalar implicatures involve inferring the use of a less informative term (e.g. some) to mean the negation of a more informative term (e.g. not all). A growing body of recent research on the derivation of scalar implicatures by adult second language (L2) learners shows that while they are successful in acquiring the knowledge of scalar…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Inferences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This study explores how a group of learners of English as a second language (ESL) criticize in everyday situations compared to the native speaker (NS) with a view to expanding the range of speech acts under inquiry in the interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) literature. Data were collected from five NSs of New Zealand English and five intermediate…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Criticism, English (Second Language)
