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Direct linkReiter, Rosina Marquez; Rainey, Isobel; Fulcher, Glenn – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This article presents the results of an exploratory empirical study into the perception of conventionally indirect requests in British English and Peninsular Spanish, given the high incidence of the pragmatic category over others in its encoding of politeness in both related and unrelated languages (cf. Blum-Kulka et al., 1989). More specifically,…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Language Patterns, Pragmatics, English
Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet; And Others – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Drawing on the results of sociolinguistic research in three ethnically different communities in Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores and illustrates the process of language shift and language revival. Members of the Greek, Tongan, and Chinese communities were interviewed; and data were collected on their language proficiency, patterns of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Greek
