This article addresses the speech act set of online complaint and the directness on social media in China and takes the topic of the epidemic outbreak in Shanghai as the source of the corpus.100 online complaints are ...
This study mainly combines the emerging Internet video comment mode“Barrage”to explore the main types of complaint speech acts,the object of complaint,the discourse function of complaint speech acts,and the modifier...
This interlanguage pragmatics study of linguistic expressions of affect focuses on how Japanese learners of English may express themselves in an affect-laden speech act of indirect complaint. The English as a Second L...
The present study investigates the preferred strategies of the speech act of complaint by Malaysian ESL learners. The subjects were selected from Malaysian university students majoring in English at University Sains M...