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Direct linkChang, Yuh-Fang – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
Whereas the speech act of refusal is universal across language, the politeness value and the types of linguistic forms used to perform it vary across language and culture. The majority of the comparative pragmatic research findings were derived from one single source of data (i.e., either production data or perception data). Few attempts have been…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
