A cross-linguistic study of requestive speech acts in email communication

The study investigated the formulations of requesting strategies in writing by ESL PhD students. The aim was to discover the extent to which their performance converged or differed from that of English Ll participants. Furthermore, in order to account for the ESL participants' possible differen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yaghoobi, Bager
Other Authors: Bygate, M. ; Deignan, A.
Published: University of Leeds 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250922

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