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Politeness markers in French and Dutch requests

Language SciencesPublished 1 July 1996
M.J.P. van Mulken
Citations80
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SJR score0.59
SNIP1.34

Abstract

This paper describes a difference in social norms which results in a differing distribution of politeness markers in the Dutch and French speech communities. The use of politeness strategies is compared on the basis of a corpus of parallel Dutch and French requests. The differences in use can be explained by a different conception of the need for repair strategies.

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