This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

Although it may be surprising, the notion that a sustained sojourn in a foreign country may
have a positive impact on foreign language learners' communicative and cross-cultural …

This paper provides some (more) insights into cross-cultural variation in speech act
realization by analyzing English, German, Polish and Russian requests. It aims to shows that …

The present study examines e-mail requests sent by Greek Cypriot university students (non-
native speakers of English) to faculty at a major, English-medium university in Cyprus, over a …

This study investigates developmental patterns in the ability of Greek FL learners to refuse a
request. Drawing data from role-plays and verbal reports, it attempts to explore the strategies …

This study investigates developmental patterns in the requestive behavior of foreign
language learners of Greek. Drawing data from a DCT it attempts to explore the head acts …

The present study examines the extent to which written DCT requests approximate naturally
occurring requests in a 'standard', service-encounter telephone situation with respect to the …

Situated within the field of developmental interlanguage pragmatics, this cross-sectional
study examines pragmalinguistic development in the request production of two groups of …

Although the use of technology for pragmatics instruction has attracted significant attention
from scholars, the number of studies regarding the impact of self-access materials to this end …

Few studies have investigated the internal modification of refusals. This study investigates
the effect of participating in a study abroad programme on the pragmatic development of …