My grade's too low: The speech act set of complaining
By B. Murphy, J. Neu. 2006
136 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Education, Management Science and Operations Research
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Citations in the corpus
- Speech act sets of refusal and complaint: A comparison of native and non-native English-speakers' production (2004, background): “In a scenario where the speaker is complaining to the professor about a low grade, Murphy and Neu (1996) found that native speakers tended to depersonalize the problem – to transfer blame from the professor to the paper – but that the non-native (Korean) speakers tended to place the blame directly…”