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Publication details [#51326]

Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria. 2009. Interlanguage request modification: The use of lexical/phrasal downgraders and mitigating supportive moves. Multilingua 28 (1) : 79–111.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study sets out to contribute to the domain of interlanguage pragmatics by distinguishing pragmatic requestive features of second language speech acts, focusing in particular on Greek English as a second language university students' use of lexical/phrasal downgraders (internal modification) and supportive moves (external modification) as compared to native English speakers.