Publications

Publication details [#44044]

Marti, Leyla. 2006. Indirectness and politeness in Turkish–German bilingual and Turkish monolingual requests. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (11) : 1836–1869.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | directness | politeness | pragmatic competence | request

Language as a subject

German | Turkish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines (in)directness and the realisation and politeness perception of Turkish monolingual speakers' requests and those of Turkish–German bilingual returnees.