Request strategies in Burmese

• Main Author: Rattanapitak, Ampika
• Other Authors: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Requests strategy; Burmese
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177631
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...