An experimental study of native speaker perceptions of non-native request modification in e-mails in English

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-255

  Hendriks, Berna ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77954650011     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2010.011     Document Type: Article

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