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This paper is concerned with a contrastive, cross-language analysis of one particular type of ‘face-threatening act’ (Brown and Levinson 1987), viz. requests; we will investigate the politeness strategies which are used by both native and non-native language users, and attempt to show that the study of this area of ‘interlanguage pragmatics’ can reveal potential pitfalls for language users involved in cross-cultural business communication.
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Geluykens, R. (2003). Requesting strategies in native vs. non-native English. In: Cyrus, L., Feddes, H., Schumacher, F., Steiner, P. (eds) Sprache zwischen Theorie und Technologie / Language between Theory and Technology. Sprachwissenschaft. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81289-6_7
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