Publications

Publication details [#56805]

Abdolrezapour, Parisa and Abbass Eslami-Rasekh. 2012. The effect of using mitigation devices on request compliance in Persian and American English. Discourse Studies 14 (2) : 145–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreeing | language and culture | mitigation | requesting, processing of | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, American | Persian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This sociolinguistic study explores how mitigation strategies affect (perception of) request consent in American and Iranian requestors and requestees.