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Discourse Domains Revisited: Expertise and Investment in Conversation.
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Whyte, Shona – Pragmatics and Language Learning, 1992
A study attempts to refine the discourse domain hypothesis of second language learning, which holds that a second language is acquired with reference to speaker-specific topic areas rather than as a general, context-independent competence, by examining the discourse domains developed by one non-native speaker of English in conversations with two…
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