L2 PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN CHINESE EFL ROUTINES
by Wang, Yuqi
fromSpringerBriefs in education
by Wang, Yuqi
fromSpringerBriefs in education
This book adopts a cross-sectional approach and mainly focuses on one of the core pragmatic constructs, formulaic/pragmatic routines, in addition to components put forward by Roever (2011) and Taguchi (2013). It actively integrates multidimensional pragmatic modalitiesincluding …
This paper proposes a new theory of why null-subjects of finite verbs are produced by young children developing a non-null-subject language. We first show that one of the extant theories, Topic-Drop, isn't supported. Modifying ideas proposed in Rizzi (2006), we assume that finit…