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Publication details [#49024]

Drew, Paul and Traci S. Curl. 2008. Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting. Research on Language and Social Interaction 41 (2) : 129–153.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the syntactic forms that speakers select for requests display their comprehensions of the contingencies related to the ability of the recipient to grant the request.