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标题：Polite Requests in Non-native Varieties of English: The Case of Ghanian English
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作者：Jemima Asabea Anderson
期刊名称：Linguistica Atlantica
印刷版ISSN：1188-9932
出版年度：2009
卷号：30
期号：0
页码：59-86
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出版社：Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
摘要：Although several studies have been carried out on the theory of politeness,the definition of this notion varies among linguists and according to languagesand cultures: what is polite and socially appropriate in one context or culturemay be considered impolite or excessively polite in another. Further, rules ofpoliteness may be transferred from a first language to a second language bylearners who maintain hybridized usage due to these transfers. In this articlewe demonstrate the maintenance of some of these transfers in politeness strate.gies in Ghanaian English. This variety is influenced by the cultural norms ofpoliteness of some Ghanaian languages whose speakers fuse native speakerconventions with English politeness conventions. We discuss herein some hybridizedforms that result from cultural transfers from one Ghanaian language,Akan.
关键词：oliteness; Ghanaian English; requests; hybridization; pragmatics; non. native .varieties of English