nam a22 c 4500 pbns.265/22016821 nljbp 250625071756.2 cr ||||||||||| 241210s2016 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2016033514 9789027266767 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PE1072 427/.941 23 CFG bicssc LAN009030 bisacsh Flock, Ilka author Requests in American and British English A contrastive multi-method analysis Ilka Flöck Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016 ©2016 1 online resource (xvi, 264 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 265 Includes bibliographical references and index. Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical framework -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 4. Results I: Requests in AmE and BrE informal conversations -- Chapter 5. Results II: Requests in non-elicited conversations and DCTs -- Chapter 6. Conclusion This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved from the International Corpus of English (ICE) and the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. On the methodological dimension, it systematically compares request strategies and their frequency distributions in the conversational data to questionnaire-based requests. Highlighting various instrument-induced effects, the volume challenges the validity of one of the most widely used and accepted data collection tools in pragmatics research, the DCT. The extensive data analysis contained in the volume includes a wide range of linguistic variables including mitigating and aggravating modification strategies and their interaction with head act directness levels. While it focuses on the first-pair part, the book also offers an analysis of request responses from a cross-cultural perspective. The findings of the study contribute new insights to research on requests, politeness, variational pragmatics, and general research methodology. Provided by publisher. Discourse studies English linguistics Germanic linguistics Pragmatics Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Flöck, Ilka author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016 9789027256706 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.265 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027266767