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A Contrastive Analysis of the Spoken Discourse of Bilingual Swedish Finnish and Native Swedish School Children.
Kataja, Riitta – 1991
Finnish and Swedish dialogues by bilingual Swedish Finnish children were contrasted with dialogues by their monolingual peers. Two specific discourse features were investigated: the use and distribution of various politeness strategies and the use of downgraders. The material consisted of 12 second language dialogues in Finnish between the Finnish…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialogs (Language)