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, however, alert...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12876/1/22226-65603-2-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12876/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1076 |
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