A Pragmatic Analysis of Requests in Irish English and Russian

This study focuses on contrastive pragmatics in the realization of the speech act of requests in Irish English and Russian in conversational and institutional settings. A quali-quantitative analysis was conducted to investigate how each language differs in realizing requests in each setting and to...

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Main Author: Martina Maria McCarthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2018-11-01
Series:Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/54