Request Strategies: A Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean

This book investigates request strategies in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and is one of the first attempts to address cross-cultural strategies employed in the speech act of requests in two non-Western languages. The data, drawn from role-plays and naturally recorded conversations, complement each o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rue, Yong ju, Zhang, Grace
Format: Book
Published: John Benjamins 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22281