| Authors/Editors: |
Wichmann, Anne
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| Title: |
“The intonation of Please-requests: a corpus-based study.”
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| Year: |
2004 |
| Publisher: |
Amsterdam: Elsevier
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| Pages: |
pp. 1521-1549 |
| Publication type: |
Article in journal
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| In: |
Journal of Pragmatics 36:9
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| DOI: |
10.1016/j.pragma.2004.03.003 |
| Language: |
English |
| Keyword(s): |
intonation  ; meaning ; politeness ; pragmatics ; request |
| Subject — language(s): |
English |
| 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. |