Making sense of the hotel trainees' internal request modification in Jordanian host-guest interaction

• Main Authors: Rababah, Mahmoud, Harun, Minah, Shapii, Aspalila
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: oapun.org 2019
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/27833/1/EJALS%202%201%202019%2088%20112.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/27833/; https://oapub.org/lit/index.php/EJALS/article/view/128

This paper examines the language of requests among the hotel trainees in Jordan. It seeks to explore the ways in which the trainees formulate requests in English as a foreign language at the service counter. Specifically, it discusses the extent to which the Jordanian trainees' use of internal...