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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Hartford, Beverly S. – Language Learning, 1990
Examines status in institutional discourse and identifies congruence as a factor in the success of native and nonnative speakers. Nonnative speakers suffered from a lack of context-specific pragmatic competence involving the use of status preserving strategies and appropriate content for noncongruent speech acts. (21 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis