Pragmatic perspectives on the second language acquisition of person reference in Japanese : a longitudinal study

This thesis presents a longitudinal study of the acquisition of person reference in Japanese by second language (L2) learners whose first language is English. Reference to persons is of particular interest in pragmatics as an area where discourse-pragmatic (referential coherence) and social (status...

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Main Author: Lumley, Joseph Robert
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.588215