Investigation of the Speech Act “Request” in English and Uzbek
Keywords:
speech act, pragmatics, politeness, imperativeAbstract
This article studies the speech act “request” in Modern English and Uzbek. It also investigates expressing ways of request in the compared languages with some examples.
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