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Publication details [#62111]

Dingemanse, Mark and Julija Baranova. 2016. Reasons for requests. Discourse Studies 18 (6) : 641–675.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explaining | information processing | reason adverbial | request | social interaction

Language as a subject

Russian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines reasons-giving and its interactional work in Russian request sequences. Reasons frequently (1) offer information when a request is too vague, (2) manage interaction and (3) explain subservient actions executed by a request.