2015 年 22 巻 2 号 p. 38-39
The level of conventionality has already been reported in previous studies. However, literature does not have any reports on whether the types of speech acts affect the comprehension of indirect speech acts or not. Moreover, a question about how the level of conventionality and types of speech acts affect the indirect speech acts comprehension is also unanswered in the literature even though they are closely correlated to each other. This motivated the current study which explores these questions using a pragmatic comprehension questionnaire. A multi-way ANOVA result supports the significant effect of the level of conventionality and types of speech acts.