Request Strategies: A comparative study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean
Yong-Ju Rue and Grace Zhang
This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 177] 2008. xv, 320 pp.