The Art of Requesting. Politeness and Indirectness in English and German. 1st ed. 2026.

Autor/in	Thiele, Vienna
Titel	The Art of Requesting. Politeness and Indirectness in English and German. 1st ed. 2026.
Quelle	Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden (2026), XIV, 82 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	BestMasters
Beigaben	Illustrationen 13; farbige Illustrationen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monografie
ISBN	978-3-658-51012-1; 978-3-658-51013-8; 978-3-658-51014-5
DOI	10.1007/978-3-658-51013-8
Schlagwörter	Höflichkeit; Deutsch; Fragebildung; Linguistik; Englisch; Methodologie; Vergleichsuntersuchung
Abstract	This study investigates the perception and production of request strategies in American English and German. It is a modified replication of Blum-Kulka's (1987) study on indirectness and politeness in requests. In this book, data was collected from speakers of American English and German, and comparisons were made regarding their perception and choice of request strategies in six different scenarios, using a data collection method similar to a DCT (discourse completion test). The scenarios varied according to the extralinguistic variables power and social distance. The results indicate that there are some significant differences between American English and German speakers in how they perceive the politeness of different request strategies, although the results on production do not reflect the same pattern. About the Author Vienna Thiele is a doctoral student and research assistant in English linguistics at the English Department of Leibniz University Hannover. Her research focuses on intercultural pragmatics. Inhalt: Introduction -- Forms and Functions: Requests -- Theoretical Framework -- State of the Art / Literature Review -- Methodology -- Description of Results -- Discussion of Results -- Qualitative Findings -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References.
Erfasst von	Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Update	2026/3