Publications

Publication details [#38940]

Wichmann, Anne. 2004. The intonation of Please-requests: a corpus-based study. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (9) : 1521–1549.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation | meaning | politeness | pragmatics | request

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This corpus-based study deals with please as a politeness marker and its close association with requests and furnishes proof for the syntactic, pragmatic and contextual restrictions on please in spoken English.