L2 Acquisition of Gradable Adjectives at the Semantics-pragmatics Interface
The present research investigates L2 acquisition of gradable adjectives at the semantics-pragmatics interface and explores the role of the culture-specific factor'face'in L2 interpretation of gradable adjectives under negation.The study included two acceptability judgment tasks and the results showed that L2 speakers were native-like in interpreting gradable adjectives under negation without a context(Experiment 1).However,L2 speakers were affected by the realization of face in processing gradable adjectives with face-threatening contexts(Experiment 2).This paper hopes to provide insights for L2 research on the semantics-pragmatics interface and L2 speakers'capability of deriving pragmatic inferences.
gradable adjectivesinference towards the antonympolarity asymmetrysemantics-pragmatics interface
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