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Most scholars who have studied sociocultural transfer in the speech of second language learners (L2) have examined primarily the observable transfer ( surface-structure transfer) and have overlooked the transfer of deep sociocultural values ( deep-structure transfer). Close examination of three cases of serious communication breakdowns between an L2 speaker and a native speaker reveals that...