Internal and external mitigation in interlanguage request production: The case of Greek learners of English

Journal of Politeness Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-138

  Economidou Kogetsidis, M ^a  

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Author keywords

Greek; Interlanguage; Mitigation; Modification; Power; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749130592     PISSN: 16125681     EISSN: 16134877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/PR.2008.005     Document Type: Article

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