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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Universidad de Alicante
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
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| Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/24303 |