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Abstract Book The 6th LSHK Postgraduate Research Forum on Linguistics March 14-15, 2009 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University A Pragmatic Study on Chinese Lexical repetition CHENG Jie Guangdong Foreign Studies University With its multifaceted and pervasive presence in verbal communication, repetition reflects something specific about language use, in particular how people interact with each other. However, it has drawn less attention from the scholars at home and abroad, and thus stirs up our curiosity for the present study. Aiming to give a unified and plausible account of lexico-pragmatic processes of lexical repetition within the framework of the adaptation-relevance model, this dissertation focuses its attention on the properties of lexical repetition and how the speaker produces the repetition in Chinese utterance production, which helps to elucidate the dynamic producing-process by proposing a particular model. Relevant studies have neglected both pragmatic factors and the dynamic process of repetition in interaction, this study will therefore explore the targeted lexical repetition from the perspectives of cognitive pragmatics and lexical pragmatics. Since most of the prior studies have mainly concentrated on the functions of repetition, but such functions are only the results or symptoms, not the causes, thus this study will explore the underlying nature and give a panorama of the producing process of lexical repetition with some findings. The data for the above purposes are collected from fields, such as daily communication, TV interviews and plays, novels and radio programs, which all are in Chinese. Anxiety in the Korean EFL Classroom DUVERNAY Nicholas Department of Linguistics, Korea University nickyohan@ In recent thinking, learner personality has been found to be an important factor in building a theory of second language acquisition (Brown, 2007; D?rnyei Skehan, 2003; Arnold, 1999). Classroom anxiety—an affective, emo