Indirectness and politeness in Turkish-German bilingual and Turkish monolingual requests

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1836-1869

  Marti, Leyla ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

CCSARP; Discourse completion test; Indirectness; Politeness; Pragmatic transfer; Requests; Turkish; Turkish German bilinguals

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747798295     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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