the aim of this study was to test the Intercultural Style Hypothesis, put forward by Kasper and Blum-Kulka in the introduction to their 1993 volume Interlanguage Pragmatics, in relation to requesting behavior. The study looked into observable differences in L1 (Serbian) and L2 (English) requesting behavior and how these relate to speakers' L2 proficiency levels. The respondents were asked to complete a set of Discourse Completion Tasks; the responses were codified and the five elements considered in detail were the following: alerters, request strategies, syntactic downgraders, lexical and phrasal downgraders, and mitigating supportives. Statistical analyses of the data provide some support for the Intercultural Style Hypothesis.
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Univ Oklahoma, Dept Modern Languages Literatures & Linguist, Norman, OK 73019 USA
Univ Oklahoma, Sch Int & Area Studies, Norman, OK 73019 USAUniv Oklahoma, Dept Modern Languages Literatures & Linguist, Norman, OK 73019 USA
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Univ Western Ontario, Dept Modern Languages & Literatures, Arts & Humanities Bldg,1151 Richmond St, London, ON N64 3K7, CanadaUniv Western Ontario, Dept Modern Languages & Literatures, Arts & Humanities Bldg,1151 Richmond St, London, ON N64 3K7, Canada
Botero, Diana P.
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San Diego State Univ, Dept Linguist & Asian Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego, CA 92182 USASan Diego State Univ, Dept Linguist & Asian Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
Yasufuku, Kanako
Doyle, Gabriel
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San Diego State Univ, Dept Linguist & Asian Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego, CA 92182 USASan Diego State Univ, Dept Linguist & Asian Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego, CA 92182 USA