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Request Interpretation

Request Interpretation is a theoretical construct in pragmatics that identifies the cognitive and linguistic process by which hearers infer the speaker's intended directive force and contextual meaning from a request utterance.

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2017–2026

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54

Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting

Traci S. Curl, Paul Drew · Research on Language and Social Interaction · 2008 · 799 citations · Full text

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‘Will you or can’t you?’: Displaying entitlement in interrogative requests

Trine Heinemann · Journal of Pragmatics · 2006 · 315 citations

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Requests and responses in children's speech

Catherine Garvey · Journal of Child Language · 1975 · 296 citations

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On questions following questions in service encounters

Marilyn Merritt · Language in Society · 1976 · 288 citations

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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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Authors

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  1. RW
    Raymond W. Gibbs

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    4 publications · 596 citations

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  2. TH
    Trine Heinemann

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    4 publications · 457 citations

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  3. ST
    Sean Trott

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  4. BA
    Barbara A. Fox

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    3 publications · 142 citations

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  5. BK
    Benjamin K. Bergen

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 27 citations

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Institutions

73

  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    384 citations

  2. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    80 citations

  3. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    142 citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    59 citations

  5. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    54 citations

  6. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    204 citations

  7. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    86 citations

  8. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    180 citations

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  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    6 publications · 527 citations

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  3. Psychological Reports

    2 publications · 30 citations

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  4. Language in Society

    2 publications · 363 citations

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  5. First Language

    2 publications · 62 citations

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