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Research Methodologies in Pragmatics: Eliciting Refusals to Requests
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2011)
The speech act of refusing, as a dispreferred response, is complex to perform and it usually involves indirect strategies as well as mitigating devices to avoid risking the initiator’s positive face. The appropriate choice ...
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Developing pragmatic competence in the EFL setting: the case of request in tourism texts
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2002)
In this paper we present an analysis of how the speech act of requesting is offered in several EFL (English as a Foreign Language) materials from the discipline of tourism. Our objective is to examine which is the most ...