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Callahan, Laura – Hispania, 2011
This pilot study examines the face work in two students' e-mail requests for letters of recommendation, to investigate whether and how the type and amount of face work differs in requests written in English and Spanish by native speakers of each language. The results do not conform to those of previous comparisons of requestive behavior between…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English, Syntax, Electronic Mail