Alerters in Malay and English speech act of request: a contrastive pragmatics analysis
This study focuses on the speech act of requests, specifically on the alerters. An 'alerter' refers to the discourse feature used in initiating a conversation or the getting attention of the hearer. Request as a speech act is much investigated for its Head Acts and Supportive Moves, howeve...
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
2018.
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