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Request Modification

Request Modification is a pragmatic strategy within interlanguage pragmatics that refers to a linguistic device employed by language learners to adjust the directness, politeness, or force of a request through the inclusion of modifiers such as modal verbs, hedged expressions, or syntactic softening, thereby distinguishing it from other speech acts by its focus on the incremental mitigation of face-threatening elements in second language communication.

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Modifying requests in a second language

Tim Hassall · IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching · 2001 · 134 citations

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Internal and external mitigation in interlanguage request production: The case of Greek learners of English

Maria Economidou‐Kogetsidis · Journal of Politeness Research · 2008 · 109 citations

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An experimental study of native speaker perceptions of non-native request modification in e-mails in English

Berna Hendriks · Intercultural Pragmatics · 2010 · 96 citations · Full text

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Strategies, modification and perspective in native speakers’ requests: A comparison of WDCT and naturally occurring requests

Maria Economidou‐Kogetsidis · Journal of Pragmatics · 2013 · 75 citations

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MODIFIERS AS INDICATING DEVICES: THE CASE OF REQUESTS

Shoshana Blum‐Kulka · Theoretical Linguistics · 1985 · 72 citations

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Authors

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  1. ME
    Maria Economidou‐Kogetsidis

    University of Nicosia, Cyprus

    3 publications · 249 citations

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  2. EA
    Eva Alcón Soler

    Universitat Jaume I, Spain

    2 publications · 83 citations

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  3. AM
    Alicia Martínez‐Flor

    Universitat Jaume I, Spain

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  4. AB
    Anne Barron

    Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  5. AL
    Antônio L. Furtado

    Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Universitat Jaume I

    Castellon, Spain

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    114 citations

  2. University of Nicosia

    Nicosia, Cyprus

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    140 citations

  3. University of Novi Sad

    Novi Sad, Serbia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  4. University of Cyprus

    Nicosia, Cyprus

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    65 citations

  5. Leuphana University of Lüneburg

    Lüneburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  6. Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. Educational Testing Service

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  8. IVDiagnostics (United States)

    Crown Point, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    63 citations

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  2. Multilingua

    3 publications · 148 citations

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  3. Intercultural Pragmatics

    3 publications · 193 citations

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  4. Theoretical Linguistics

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  5. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 140 citations

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