Interlanguage request modification: The use of lexical/phrasal downgraders and mitigating supportive moves

Multilingua

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-111

  Economidou Kogetsidis, Maria ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English; External modification; Greek; Interlanguage; Internal modification; Lexical phrasal downgraders supportive moves; Mitigation; Requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949457830     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2009.004     Document Type: Article

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