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Request Head Acts

Request Head Act is a pragmatic speech act categorized as a direct linguistic strategy that functions to impose a demand or solicitation on the hearer with minimal mitigation, distinguishing it from indirect or softened request forms within the hierarchy of request realization strategies.

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Citations

38

Authors

19

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

4

Variants

Request Head Act

Parents

Publications

25

Do people always process the literal meanings of indirect requests?

Raymond W. Gibbs · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition · 1983 · 236 citations

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Pragmatic development in the Spanish as a FL classroom: A cross-sectional study of learner requests

J. César Félix‐Brasdefer · Intercultural Pragmatics · 2007 · 221 citations

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The role of linguistic indirectness and honorifics in achieving linguistic politeness in Korean requests

Andrew Sangpil Byon · Journal of Politeness Research · 2006 · 157 citations

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Metapragmatic awareness and pragmatic production of third language learners of English: A focus on request acts realizations*1

María Pilar Safont Jordà · International Journal of Bilingualism · 2003 · 110 citations

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Request strategies in British English and Japanese

Saeko Fukushima · Language Sciences · 1996 · 109 citations

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Authors

38

  1. HB
    Homa Babai Shishavan

    Monash University, Australia

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  2. JC
    J. César Félix‐Brasdefer

    Indiana University, United States

    2 publications · 284 citations

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  3. RW
    Raymond W. Gibbs

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    2 publications · 307 citations

    2

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  4. FS
    Farzad Sharifian

    Monash University, Australia

    2 publications · 69 citations

    2

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  5. YJ
    You Jin Kim

    Ewha Womans University, South Korea

    1 publications · 76 citations

    1

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Institutions

19

  1. Universitat Jaume I

    Castellon, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    127 citations

  2. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

  3. Parsons (United States)

    Chantilly, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

  4. State University of Malang

    Malang, Indonesia

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    24 citations

  5. Georgia State University

    Atlanta, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    76 citations

  6. IVDiagnostics (United States)

    Crown Point, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

  7. National University of Malaysia

    Bangi, Malaysia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  8. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    20 citations

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Venues

  1. Multilingua

    2 publications · 69 citations

    2

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  2. Journal of Politeness Research

    2 publications · 177 citations

    2

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  3. Intercultural Pragmatics

    2 publications · 284 citations

    2

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  4. 2

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  5. Issues in Applied Linguistics

    IAL · 1 publications · 10 citations

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