The Speech Act Set of Direct Complaints in American and Russian Cultures
This study investigates the speech act set of direct complaints performed by American speakers and Russian native speakers. This article explores the semantic categories that speakers in each language group used to structure their complaints and the order of occurrences of the categories from the po...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN |
| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9391 |