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Mitigated Request Speech Acts in Learner Discourse

Rok: 2020

Druh publikace: ostatní - článek ve sborníku

Název zdroje: Functional Plurality of Language in Contextualised Discourse : Eighth Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English

Název nakladatele: Masarykova univerzita

Místo vydání: Brno

Strana od-do: 51-62

Tituly:

Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
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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