| Title: THE USAGE AND IMPORTANCE OF REQUEST INTERNAL MITIGATION IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH AND IRAQI ARABIC: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS |
| Authors: Mohammed Tahir Aldhulaee, Australia |
| This study investigates the utilization of internal mitigating devices employed by Australian English native speakers and Iraqi Arabic native speakers for softening the force of request speech acts in everyday situations. Data for the study were collected through a role-play interview and analysed using an analytical framework based on the CCSARP model. The findings reveal both quantitative and qualitative distinctions between the two participant groups. Specifically, internal mitigating devices were found to be more prevalent in Australian English requests compared to Iraqi Arabic requests. Moreover, the two groups exhibited divergent employment of semantic formulae associated with certain mitigating devices in specific situations. The observed disparities in the use of request mitigations were attributed to linguistic and cultural variations inherent in the Australian and Iraqi contexts. |
| Keywords: Request Speech Acts; Request Mitigation; Internal Modifiers; Syntactic Downgraders; Lexical/phrasal Downgraders. |
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.59009/ijlllc.2023.0047 |
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