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Publication details [#38940]

Wichmann, Anne. 2004. The intonation of Please-requests: a corpus-based study. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (9) : 1521–1549.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This corpus-based study deals with please as a politeness marker and its close association with requests and furnishes proof for the syntactic, pragmatic and contextual restrictions on please in spoken English.