Download or read book Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and pragmatics written by Susan M. Gass and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. It makes important contributions to methodological and theoretical issues in SLA, as well as to the role of these issues in general linguistics.