Examining mitigation in requests: A focus on transcripts in ELT coursebooks

Intercultural Language Use and Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 207-222

  Campillo, Patricia Salazar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

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EID: 84892227186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5639-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

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