Method - Requests
15 important questions on Method - Requests
What may the request sentence include?
- alerters
- preposed supportive moves
- the Head Act
- downgraders or upgraders
- postposed supportive moves
What are supportive moves?
Which strategy types for Head Acts exist?
- mood derivable
- performatives
- hedged performatives
- obligation statements
- want statements
- suggestory formulae
- query preparatory
- strong hints
- mild hints
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What are mood derivable head acts?
What are hedged performatives?
What are obligation statements?
What are suggestory formulae?
What are query preparatory head acts?
What are strong hints?
What are mild hints?
Which three main levels of directness has been empirically shown to be valid across several languages?
- direct strategies
- conventionally indirect strategies
- nonconventionally indirect strategies
What does choice of perspective affect?
What are internal modifiers?
In which two ways can such modifiers be multifunctional?
- they may act both as indicating devices, used to signal pragmatic force, as well as sociopragmatic devices, meant to affect the social impact the utterance is likely to have.
- in their sociopragmatic role, they may act either as downgraders, meant to mitigate, the act of alternatively as upgraders that emphasize its degree of coerciveness.
What are syntactic downgraders?
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