Politeness through the prism of requests : apologies and refusals a case of advanced Serbian efl learners / / Milic Savić

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789254303321
• Autore: SavSavić Milic
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-5857-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.2
• Soggetti: English language; English language - Phonetics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The challenges that EFL learners, teachers and teacher educators are facing today have increased considerably with the comparatively new role of English as the lingua franca of the modern world. For both learners and teachers, responding to these new demands involves mastering a broader set of communication skills and a wider range of competencies in English, L2 pragmatic competence being only one of them, albeit an extremely significant one. With this in mind, Politeness through the Prism of...