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Publication details [#53108]

Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria. 2010. Cross-cultural and situational variation in requesting behaviour: Perceptions of social situations and strategic usage of request patterns. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2261–2281.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | directness | L2-acquisition | requesting | situation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the link between social/situational and cultural factors and native English speakers' and English as a second language learning Greek speakers’ requesting behaviour, as power, familiarity and imposition alone do not always determine speakers’ directness.