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Chen, Hongyin Julie – 1996
A study exploring native English-speakers' and advanced Chinese English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners' beliefs about how a face-threatening speech act, refusal, should be expressed is reported. The two major research questions of the study were: how native speakers of English and Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) differ in their…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics