Alerters in Malay and english speech act of request: A contrastive pragmatics analysis

This study focuses on the speech act of requests, specifically on the alerters. An 'alerter' refers to the discourse feature used in initiating a conversation or the getting attention of the hearer. Request as a speech act is much investigated for its Head Acts and Supportive Moves, howeve...

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Published in:3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature
Main Author: Maros M.; Halim N.S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045681737&doi=10.17576%2f3L-2018-2401-06&partnerID=40&md5=5fd3f183d49988a3839af975cf2a0981