REFUSAL STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY BULGARIAN AND ENGLISH NATIVE SPEAKERS WITH HIGHER STATUS INTERLOCUTORS
This paper compares the refusal strategies employed by English and Bulgarian native speakers in business settings with interlocutors of a higher status. The data collecting tool is a discourse - completion task (DCT). The refusals are compared in terms of frequency of the semantic formulas and adjun...
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| Language: | English |
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Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT |
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| Online Access: | http://silc.shu.bg/images/issues/2020/SILC_2020_Vol_8_Issue_3_036-047_12.pdf |