Requests and refusals in English and Chinese
In this thesis, I study the speech acts of request and refusal in Chinese and English. The aim of this study is to not only compare the results between Chinese and English in the realization patterns in the two speech acts, but also between my investigation results and those of the Cross-Cultural Sp...
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University of Leeds
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490969 |