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Investigating L2 English Learners' Responses to and Interpretations of Conversational Implicature
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Jean Young Chun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates second language (L2) learners' comprehension of conversational implicatures that arise in two speech acts, requests and refusals. The review of empirical studies that investigated L2 pragmatic comprehension revealed two recurring issues: (a) the lack of a clear definition of conventionality, leaving open the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Conversational Language Courses