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Takahashi, Satomi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the transferability of five Japanese indirect request strategies to corresponding English request contexts. Findings indicate that the Japanese strategies were differentially transferable and the transferability of each first-language request strategy was determined by interaction between the politeness and conventionality encoded in each…
Descriptors: College Students, Context Effect, English, Hypothesis Testing