{"product_id":"polite-requests-in-english-in-ghana-von-jemima-asabea-anderson","title":"Polite Requests in English in Ghana","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book describes polite request forms used by  speakers of English in Ghana. The book argues that  speakers of English in Ghana transfer request  patterns that exist in their first languages into  English. Instead of using conventionalised polite  formulae such as modal verbs, speakers of English in  Ghana prefer to use imperatives and ¿want¿ statements  that occur frequently in their first languages. The  data used for this book were gathered from speakers  of English in Ghana through observation of natural  speech and administration of Discourse Completion  Test (DCT) questionnaire. Analysis of the corpus of  1000 oral and written requests produced by the  informants leads to the following conclusions:  Speakers of English in Ghana tend to use more  imperatives and ¿want¿ statements in polite requests.  Since modals are not used frequently in English in  Ghana, lexical politeness markers such as ¿please''  and ¿kindly'', external modification, address forms,  and attention getters are frequently used as  politeness indicators in English in Ghana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783843363037\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRequest forms in English in Ghana\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783843363037","offer_id":39497082765405,"sku":"9783843363037","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/db5de26b-3fa7-4e0c-b1ca-c0d8189a257b.jpg?v=1757655892","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/polite-requests-in-english-in-ghana-von-jemima-asabea-anderson","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}