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Takahashi, Satomi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the transferability of five Japanese indirect request strategies to corresponding English request contexts. Findings indicate that the Japanese strategies were differentially transferable and the transferability of each first-language request strategy was determined by interaction between the politeness and conventionality encoded in each…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English, Hypothesis Testing
van Dijk, Teun A. – 1983
In order to design a cognitive model of ethnic attitudes, an interdisciplinary project has analyzed strategies used in everyday conversation among majority members about minority groups, e.g., immigrant workers from Turkey and Morocco and people from Surinam. Data were collected through undirected interviews among people in an Amsterdam…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnic Bias, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations