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Alcolado Carnicero, José Miguel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
A mixed-language phenomenon such as language shift has been acknowledged to constitute one of the hallmarks of the manuscripts in which the members of the City of London livery companies recorded their financial transactions during the late medieval period. Despite these texts having been studied by scholars in very diverse disciplines,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Business Communication, Money Management, Accounting
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Lee, Cynthia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
Extending Lee's (Pragmatics 15: 395-422, 2005) work, the researcher further investigates the requestive behaviour of a group of Cantonese learners of English (CLEs) in Hong Kong in terms of their strategy and linguistic preference. The data were collected from a discourse completion test (DCT). Their requestive behaviour is studied in three…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Linguistics, Foreign Countries