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request for help
Today, I’ve been doing a lot of reading for my pragmatics course and have found one journal article to be particularly useful. Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure by Jenny Thomas in Applied Linguistics 4, 2 (1983). This article has helped me to see the relevence of pragmatics to ESL/EFL instruction. I am in particular interested in one of the references within the article.
However the article I want is not available at my schools library nor can I find it available in the databases available to me via Macquarie due to it’s age. So if someone who has access to this article would like to help out a graduate student could you scan and email it to me. I am looking for:
Harder, p. 1975 ‘Discourse as self-expression—on the reduced personality of the second language learner’. Applied Linguistics I/3:262-70.
I can get it via post from the library, but this usually takes two weeks or longer and by the time I get it, it would be too late. If you leave a comment I will provide you with my email address - I don’t want spam bots to find my address so will not display it publically.
Thank you for your help
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Aug 7, 2004 at 02:33 PM
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Tim Nall wrote 87 words on Saturday Aug 7, 2004 at 07:08 PM
Well, I will be going to my school’s library on Monday, if you don’t have it by then.. I might be able to get an electronic copy.. but it’s from the seventies, and my (small) school doesn’t usually have subscriptions that go back that far.. but we’ll see… wait, hold on.. I googled it and came up with a different date than what you have:
Applied Linguistics, Volume 1, Issue 3: September 1980.
DISCOURSE AS SELF-EXPRESSION-ON THE REDUCED PERSONALITY OF THE SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNER
PETER HARDER
Pages 262-270.
Sean. wrote 72 words on Sunday Aug 8, 2004 at 03:41 PM
Tim,
thanks for checking on that for me. I look forward to hearing from you on Monday. I tried to get an electronic copy but all the databases that Macquarie gives me access for only have Applied Linguistics back to the mid nineties.
Since I am teaching at an Engineering university I wasn’t surprised to discover they don’t have any linguistics journals. Forunately they do have some textbooks and other linguistic resources.