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Publication details [#30749]

Mulken, Margot Van. 1996. Politeness markers in French and Dutch requests. Language Sciences 18 (3-4) : 689–702.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | politeness | request

Language as a subject

Dutch | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper compares the use of politeness markers in Dutch and French request strategies. The differences in use can be explained in terms of a different conception of the need for repair strategies.