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ISBN: | 0585462542 9780585462547 9781588110152 158811015X 9789027251022 9027251029 9789027298935 9027298939 1282254723 9781282254725 9786612254727 6612254726
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their.
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Other form: | Print version: Márquez-Reiter, Rosina. Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000 158811015X 9027251029
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