Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies

• Main Authors: Abolfathiasl, Hossein, Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australian International Academic Centre 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/1/27928.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/; http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/981

This paper analyses and upgrades taxonomies of strategies and structures for the speech act of suggesting based on existing taxonomies and classifications in the pragmatics research literature. Previous studies have focused mainly on linguistic structures used to perform the speech act of suggesting...