Alerters in Malay and English speech act of request: a contrastive pragmatics analysis

This study focuses on the speech act of requests, specifically on the alerters. An ‘alerter’ refers to the discourse feature used in initiating a conversation or the getting attention of the hearer. Request as a speech act is much investigated for its Head Acts and Supportive Moves, however, alert...

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Main Authors: Marlyna Maros, Nurul Syafawani Halim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12876/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12876/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12876/1/22226-65603-2-PB.pdf