Making sense of the hotel trainees' internal request modification in Jordanian host-guest interaction

• Main Authors: Rababah, Mahmoud, Harun, Minah, Shapii, Aspalila
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: oapun.org 2019
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/27833/1/EJALS%202%201%202019%2088%20112.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/27833/; https://oapub.org/lit/index.php/EJALS/article/view/128
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This paper examines the language of requests among the hotel trainees in Jordan. It seeks to explore the ways in which the trainees formulate requests in English as a foreign language at the service counter. Specifically, it discusses the extent to which the Jordanian trainees' use of internal...