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Mitigated Request Speech Acts in Learner Discourse

Year: 2020

Type of publication: ostatní - článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Functional Plurality of Language in Contextualised Discourse : Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English

Publisher name: Masarykova univerzita

Place: Brno

Page from-to: 51-62

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Mitigated Request Speech Acts in Learner Discourse	This paper is concerned with the usage of directive speech acts in the Czech Students’ Spoken English (CSSE) corpus, particularly with requests produced by Czech EFL undergraduate learners in role-play tasks. It aims to investigate request modifications, focusing primarily on identifying syntactic and lexical devices within the request head act that mitigate the imposition of requests. The findings indicate that Czech learners prefer syntactic mitigating devices, whereas the range of lexical internal modifiers employed is limited. Finally, the paper briefly comments on the students’ linguistic and pragmatic competence in producing requests for information.	request; internal modifier; external modifier; downgrader; non-native speakers

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