... for asking for something back, grounder, which is reasons or explanations for asking for something back, disarmers, which says that asking for the thing back is not - 22 - Chapter four: ... the figure below. - 50 - 13. Takahashi, S. (1996). Pragmatic Transferability. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 18: 2, 18 9-2 23. 14. Thomas, J. (1983). Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure. ... However, - 49 - References 1. Austin, J. L. (1962). How to do things with words. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2 Blum-Kulka, S., House, J., and Kasper, G. (1989). Investigating Cross-Cultural...