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Publication details [#32106]

Hassall, Tim. 2003. Requests by Australian learners of Indonesian. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (12) : 1903–1928.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This study compares the ways in which Australian learners of Indonesian and Indonesian native speakers perform requests. It is suggested that the main task for second language pragmatics is to acquire control over knowledge rather than knowledge itself.