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Manasrah, Mohammad; Al-Delaimi, Zeydan – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008
This study attempts to investigate politeness in the requests produced by a sample of Jordanian students. The study deals with how they request, the main and supportive strategies and the influence of status, degree of imposition and the difficulty of the task between the requester and the requestee on selecting request expressions and strategies…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Native Speakers