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Dozie, Chinomso P.; Chinedu-Oko, Chioma N.; Anyanwu, Patricia N.; Egwim, Favour O.; Otagburuagu, Emeka J. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2022
This article examined the Igbo native speakers' perception of request act as well as the linguistic politeness strategies used to achieve this communicative intention in their conversational English as bilinguals. The study participants were 2748 undergraduate Igbo native speakers purposively selected from different Federal and State Universities…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Native Speakers, African Languages, Undergraduate Students