Abstract
In studies of non-native varieties of English (hereafter NNVE's), with few exceptions (D'Souza 1987; Kachru 1982, 1983, 1986; Smith 1983), not much attention has been paid to what may be called the pragmatic aspects of language use. By pragmatic aspects, I mean topics such as how certain speech acts, such as informatives, directives, commissives, etc. (cf. Austin 1962; Searle 1969) are performed in these varieties. Since NNVE's differ from native varieties in the performance of speech acts more than in formal properties, it is possible that the pragmatic approach may succeed in capturing the uniqueness of a NNVE where structural analyses fail to do so.
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