Social Contexts of Indirect Requests in Polish and Hungarian

The paper presents the influence of social context on illocutionary metonymy in directives evoked by various elements of request scenarios. As the human language activity reflects the physical and social worlds of the intersubjective context (cf. Verschueren 1999), the recognized and construed socia...

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Main Author: Agnieszka Veres-Guśpiel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland 2020-09-01
Series:New Horizons in English Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.umcs.pl/nh/article/view/10679