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Publication details [#43620]

Lee, Cynthia. 2005. A cross-linguistic study on the linguistic expressions of Cantonese and English requests. Pragmatics 15 (4) : 395–422.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | crosslinguistic perspective | request

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper presents a cross-linguistic comparison of the linguistic characteristics of written native English and Cantonese requests in an academic context.