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Strategy and Linguistic Preference of Requests by Cantonese Learners of English: An Interlanguage and Crosscultural Comparison
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Lee, Cynthia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
Extending Lee's (Pragmatics 15: 395-422, 2005) work, the researcher further investigates the requestive behaviour of a group of Cantonese learners of English (CLEs) in Hong Kong in terms of their strategy and linguistic preference. The data were collected from a discourse completion test (DCT). Their requestive behaviour is studied in three…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Syntax, Linguistics, Foreign Countries