An Exploratory Study on the Derivation of Ironical Implicatures by English Foreign Language Learners: Could Culture Play a Role?

An Exploratory Study on the Derivation of Ironical Implicatures by English Foreign Language Learners: Could Culture Play a Role?

Literature on cross-cultural communication has demonstrated that communication breakdowns are more likely to occur among speakers from different cultural backgrounds (Keenan 1976; Devine 1983). This kind of assumptions constituted the departing point of further studies, such as that of Bouton (1988)...

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Main Authors: Paola Ortiz Fernández, María Tania Barberán Recalde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2024-01-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Subjects:
cross-cultural communication
english foreign language learners
implicature
irony
cultural background
english-speaking culture
high context culture
low context culture
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/24303

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