Do indirect requests communicate politeness? An experimental study of conventionalized indirect requests in French email communication
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Politeness Research
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1613-4877,1612-5681
DOI: 10.1515/pr-2017-0026