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Request Refusal

Request Refusal is a pragmatic speech act in which a speaker explicitly or implicitly rejects a request made by a hearer, thereby declining to comply with the requested action while managing interpersonal face concerns within the interaction.

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2.3K

Citations

97

Authors

56

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

6

Variants

Refusal Of Requests

Parents

Publications

49

‘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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Expressing refusals in Korean and in American English

Jihyun Kwon · Multilingua · 2004 · 154 citations

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A contrastive pragmatic study on American english and mandarin refusal strategies

Chao-chih Liao, Mary Bresnahan · Language Sciences · 1996 · 147 citations

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Mitigation and politeness in Greek invitation refusals: Effects of length of residence in the target community and intensity of interaction on non-native speakers’ performance

Spyridoula Bella · Journal of Pragmatics · 2010 · 133 citations

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Authors

97

  1. ME
    Michael E. Roloff

    Northwestern University, United States

    6 publications · 182 citations

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  2. DI
    Danette Ifert Johnson

    Ithaca College, United States

    3 publications · 106 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. HB
    Homa Babai Shishavan

    Monash University, Australia

    2 publications · 69 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. DA
    Dina Abdel Salam El‐Dakhs

    Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

    2 publications · 50 citations

    2

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  5. WT
    William Turnbull

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    2 publications · 168 citations

    2

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Institutions

56

  1. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    133 citations

  2. West Virginia Wesleyan College

    Buckhannon, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    120 citations

  3. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    448 citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  5. Prince Sultan University

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

  6. Emerson College

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    91 citations

  7. Feng Chia University

    Taichung, Taiwan

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    312 citations

  8. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    5 publications · 579 citations

    5

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  2. Transplantation Proceedings

    3 publications · 75 citations

    3

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  3. Communication Studies

    3 publications · 111 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. Multilingua

    3 publications · 223 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. Communication Research

    CR · 2 publications · 49 citations

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