An investigation of bilingual competence: translation of requests between Chinese and English

The face-threatening nature of request has attracted attention from cross-cultural studies to identify the appropriate request realisation patterns of monolingual natives across languages, as well as from second language (L2) acquisition studies to measure the resemblance between L2 patterns and tho...

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Main Author: Lee, Kai Wai
Other Authors: Helena Gao
Format: Thesis-Master by Research
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158587