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Developmental Issues in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Gabriele Kasper  and
Richard Schmidt
Gabriele Kasper
Affiliation:
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Richard Schmidt
Affiliation:
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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Unlike other areas of second language study, which are primarily concerned with acquisitional patterns of interlanguage knowledge over time, most studies in interlanguage pragmatics have focused on second language use rather than second language learning. The aim of this paper is to profile interlanguage pragmatics as an area of inquiry in second language acquisition research, by reviewing existing studies with a focus on learning, examining research findings in interlanguage pragmatics that shed light on some basic questions in SLA, exploring cognitive and social-psychological theories that might offer explanations of different aspects of pragmatic development, and proposing a research agenda for the study of interlanguage pragmatics with a developmental perspective that will tie it more closely to other areas of SLA.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 149 - 169
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