Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation
This paper examines the features of discourse Americans and Russians employ when declining an invitation. It contains the results of an empirical comparative study conducted among 126 American and 120 Russian respondents. Based on the Politeness Theory by P. Brown and S. Levinson, as well as the Pri...
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| Language: | English |
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9353 |