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Publication details [#36938]

Becker, Judith A., Herbert D. Kimmel and Michael J. Bevill. 1989. The interactive effects of request form and speaker status on judgments of requests. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 18 (5) : 521–531.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | metapragmatic presupposition | request | social status | speaker

Place, Publisher

Plenum Press

ISBN

0090-6905

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This study explores the interactive effects of form of request and status of speaker on request judgments. It is suggested that listeners perceive unexpectedly indirect requests as more sarcastic and impolite and that language meaning depends on both form and context.