What is it about?
Refusal is commonly face threatening acts. Nevertheless L2 learners have different strategies of expressing it. This study shows that EFL learners and native speakers of English employed different paralinguistic strategies. Whilst some strategies used by the learners were much closer to their native language, there were different strategies from either their native language and target language.
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Why is it important?
Learners tended to resort to their native language when they were not able to use L2 and they also often created their own pragmalinguistic system.
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This publication provides an overview differences of pragmalinguistic strategies employed by native and non native speakers of English. Pragmatic transfer is obviously found in this study.
Mr Agus Wijayanto
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta
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This page is a summary of: Variability of refusal in L2: evidence of L1 pragmalinguistic transfer and learner's idiosyncratic usage, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, October 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/ijal.12081.
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