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- Title
How Russians pre-request and seek assistance: a study of interaction in two communities of practice.
- Authors
Rudneva, Ekaterina
- Abstract
Before asking another person to do something, it is common to check whether they are available by asking preliminary questions, or pre-request. Pre-requesting is considered a politeness strategy used to mitigate face threat or avoid committing a request proper at all. This article focuses on analyzing Russian pre-request sequences and demonstrates how they are organized and expanded in particular communities of practice. The examples have been taken from a corpus of naturally-occurring data with recordings made of two communities of practice, a workplace and an extended family. In the workplace a common respond to a pre-request is teasing, which can also lead to a sequence expansion. In the second community of practice, family, it is common for some members to avoid a request proper through initiating a series of pre-requests and hints.
- Subjects
RUSSIAN language; HONORIFIC (Grammar); NATURAL languages; COMMUNITIES; DATA analysis
- Publication
Russian Linguistics, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0304-3487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11185-019-09211-z