Cynthia Lee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cynthia Lee is involved.
Articles
2014 Review of Pallotit & Wagner (2011): Pragmatics and Society 5:1, pp. 147–150 | Review
2010 An exploratory study of the interlanguage pragmatic comprehension of young learners of English Pragmatics 20:3, pp. 343–373 | Article
This paper describes the developmental pattern of the interlanguage pragmatic comprehension of young learners of English based on their performance in a multiple-choice comprehension exercise consisting of five direct and indirect speech acts (requesting, apology, refusal, compliment and… read more
2005 A cross-linguistic study on the linguistic expressions of Cantonese and English requests Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 395–422 | Article
This study investigates the cross-linguistic devices of requests written by native English-speaking (NSE) and native Cantonese-speaking (NCS) respondents in an academic context on the basis of 197 discourse completion tests. Both groups asked in a direct sequence accompanied by a different… read more