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Direct linkWilliams, Graham Trevor – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates performative manifestations of sincerity across Anglo-Norman and Middle English. In particular, it locates adverbial sincerity markers used to qualify performative speech act verbs in late medieval letters (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), at a point when Middle English was rapidly replacing Anglo-Norman as the…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Verbs, English, Diachronic Linguistics
Alcón Soler, Eva – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The study analyses teenagers' e-mail requests during academic cyber-consultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants' perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act and social distance with the recipient. A total of 295 e-mail requests, 145 produced by British English speakers (BES) and 150…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
