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...
| Published in: | 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| 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 |