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Publication details [#30747]

Pair, Rob Le. 1996. Spanish request strategies: a cross-cultural analysis from an intercultural perspective. Language Sciences 18 (3-4) : 651–670.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | politeness | request

Language as a subject

Dutch | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A comparison of the results of two parallel experiments on request production in similar contexts, by respectively native Spanish speakers and Dutch speakers of Spanish, documents the types of variations that occur, arguing that some of them may be caused by cross-linguistic differences.