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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond new series,
0922-842X ;
265
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Pragmatics & beyond.
0922-842X ; 265.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Requests in American and British English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Research objectives; 1.2 Outline; 2. Theoretical framework; 2.1 Requests in pragmatics theories; 2.1.1 Requests in speech act theory; 2.1.2 Requests in politeness theories; 2.1.3 Requests in conversation analysis; 2.2 Speech acts and instruments of data collection; 2.2.1 Data collection instruments in pragmatics research; 2.2.2 Instrument-induced effects on the production of speech acts. |
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2.2.3 Data types, instruments and instrument-induced effects: A synthesis2.3 The structure of requests in English (and its national varieties); 2.3.1 Requests in cross-cultural pragmatics research; 2.3.2 Requests in discourse pragmatics and conversation analytic research; 2.3.3 Responses to requests; 2.4 Towards a definition of requests; 3. Methodology; 3.1 The non-elicited data: Conversational corpus data in AmE and BrE; 3.1.1 Corpora used in the present study: General information; 3.1.2 Comparability of discourse types and speaker populations in sub-corpora. |
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3.1.3 Request identification in conversational data3.2 The elicited data: DCT data in AmE and BrE; 3.2.1 The production questionnaire; 3.2.2 Data collection and comparability of speaker populations in the DCTs; 3.3 Comparability of Field and Laboratory data sets; 3.4 The coding scheme; 3.4.1 Head act strategies; 3.4.2 Modification strategies; 3.4.2.1 Mitigating request modification strategies; 3.4.2.2 Aggravating request modification strategies; 3.5 Statistical treatment; 3.6 Synopsis: Research objectives; 4. Results I: Requests in AmE and BrE informal conversations; 4.1 Request head acts. |
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4.1.1 Sentence types4.1.2 Head act strategies; 4.1.3 Directness levels; 4.2 Mitigating modification strategies; 4.2.1 Types of mitigating modifiers employed; 4.2.2 Specific mitigating modifiers employed; 4.2.2.1 Negative face mitigating modifiers; 4.2.2.2 Positive face mitigating modifiers; 4.3 Aggravating modification strategies; 4.4 Correlation of head act and modification strategies; 4.5 Responses to requests; 4.6 Discussion; 4.6.1 Interim summary; 4.6.2 Cross-cultural variation in requests; 4.6.3 Evaluation; 5. Results II: Requests in non-elicited conversations and DCTs. |
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5.1 Request head acts5.1.1 Sentence types; 5.1.2 Head act strategies; 5.1.3 Directness levels; 5.2 Mitigating modification strategies; 5.2.1 Types of mitigating modifiers employed; 5.2.2 Specific mitigating modifiers employed; 5.3 Aggravating modification strategies; 5.4 Correlation of head act and modification strategies; 5.5 Discussion: Re-evaluating Discourse Completion Tasks; 6. Conclusion; 6.1 Summary and general discussion; 6.2 Theoretical, methodological, and practical implications; 6.3 Future perspectives; References; Appendix; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Great Britain.
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English language. |
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Great Britain. |
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English language -- United States.
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United States. |
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Americanisms.
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Americanisms. |
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Contrastive linguistics.
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Contrastive linguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Flöck, Ilka author. Requests in American and British English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027256706 (DLC) 2016021085 |
| ISBN |
9789027266767 (e-book) |
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902726676X (e-book) |
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9789027256706 (print) |
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9027256705 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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