Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis
Ilka Flöck
This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.