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Stavans, Anat; Webman Shafran, Ronit – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This study investigated the mode of directness of requests and refusals and the background variables that explain this production in two trilingual populations in Israel (i.e. native speakers of Arabic for whom English is an L3, and Hebrew, an L2, and native speakers of Hebrew for whom English is an L2 and another language is their L3). Data were…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages