REQUEST MODIFICATIONS IN WORKPLACE EMAILS IN EGYPTIAN SETTING

نوع المستند : مقالات مکملة لبحوث الدکتوراه والماجیستیر

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محاضر لغة انجليزية, جامعة درايه

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This paper presents the analysis of internal and external modifications with the CCSARP as the theory of analysis in order to determine what modifications are used to mitigate or to aggravate the e-mail requests made by Egyptian employees to one another. Internal modifications take the form of syntactic downgraders and lexical/phrasal expressions (downgraders and upgradres) that would help to soften the head act of the request. External modifications are defined as supportive or aggravating moves that are realized in front of or next to the head act, and they modify the illocutionary force indirectly. The findings in the study show Egyptian coworkers tended to use external modifications (supportive moves) in all data under study. However, lexical/phrasal modifications are not applied widely since 159 of requests are not modified by any lexical/phrasal or syntactic modifications. In addition to the main request strategy types, speakers have at their disposal other means of mitigating the request, which can be internal, such as request perspective, syntactic and other downgraders and upgraders and external such as adjuncts to the head act (Blum-Kulka and Olshtain, 1984, p. 203-205).

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