Request strategies in Burmese
This study investigates request strategies in the Burmese language. The main data come from a questionnaire and are supplemented by observations. Burmese requests were analyzed based on the model of Blum-Kulka, House and Kasper (1989). The results show that there are three main request strateg...
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2024
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| 在線閱讀: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177631 |
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| 總結: | This study investigates request strategies in the Burmese language. The
main data come from a questionnaire and are supplemented by observations.
Burmese requests were analyzed based on the model of Blum-Kulka, House and
Kasper (1989). The results show that there are three main request strategies in
Burmese: direct, conventional indirect, and non-conventional indirect. In terms of
the preference strategy, both direct and conventional indirect requests are preferred
in Burmese. This does not support the universal request phenomena proposed by
Blum-Kulka et al. Although direct requests may be considered impolite in other
languages, this is not necessarily the case in Burmese, because Burmese people
modify their request by using internal modifications. |
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