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Bouton, Lawrence F. – IDEAL, 1989
Discusses the importance of conversational implicatures in cross-cultural communication and argues that the use of opened-ended questions to study such implicatures is inherently flawed. It is asserted that multiple-choice tests are better investigational devices, and an ongoing investigation of the cross-cultural interpretation of implicature…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
