EFFECTS OF PROFICIENCY AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCE ON THE PRAGMATIC COMPREHENSION OF JAPANESE ESL LEARNERS

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Studies comparing native speaker (NS) norms in the realization strategies of a variety of speech acts (SAs) with behavior by Japanese learners of American English show a tendency for these learners to produce—despite what might be expected based on stereotypes about the ultra-polite, indirect, ambiguous Japanese—overly direct responses in a variety of face-threatening acts: correction (Takahashi & Beebe, 1993); disagreement and chastisement (Beebe & Takahashi, 1989b); disagreement and conveying

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