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Publication details [#30748]

Fukushima, Saeko. 1996. Request strategies in British English and Japanese. Language Sciences 18 (3-4) : 671–688.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0388-0001

Annotation

This paper examines British and Japanese request strategies in situations with low and high imposition on the requestee The results show that more politeness strategies are used both in English and in Japanese with a higher degree of imposition, though a closer investigation reveals some differences.