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Direct linkReiter, Rosina Marquez; Rainey, Isobel; Fulcher, Glenn – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article presents the results of an exploratory empirical study into the perception of conventionally indirect requests in British English and Peninsular Spanish, given the high incidence of the pragmatic category over others in its encoding of politeness in both related and unrelated languages (cf. Blum-Kulka et al., 1989). More specifically,…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Language Patterns, Pragmatics, English
