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Download full textCoombs, Virginia M. – 1981
This paper discusses how an understanding of speech acts contributes to the communicative competence in foreign language learning. Reviewing John Searle's five categories of speech acts (1976), the directive is discussed in terms of its manifestations in various foreign languages. Examples of directives in English, German, French, and Spanish are…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
