Publications

Publication details [#42675]

Fulcher, Glenn, Rosina Márquez Reiter and Isobel Rainey. 2005. A Comparative Study of Certainty and Conventional Indirectness: Evidence from British English and Peninsular Spanish. Applied Linguistics 26 (1) : 1–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

certainty | crosslinguistic perspective | indirectness | perception2 | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English, British | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This comparative cross-linguistic study examines how (un)certain British and Spanish speakers were that their addressees would comply with their requests when they chose a specific conventionally indirect request form.