“The Worst They Can Say Is No”
Face, Fear, and Favors: Reflections of Speakers in Requests
Is a ‚no’ really the only thing we fear when we ask someone for a favor or is the issue far more complex? And which situations are particularly challenging for a speaker? In a first pre-study within my PhD project on metapragmatic perceptions of politeness I sought to find out how speakers reflect on their experiences in especially challenging request situations.
Within this study, I aimed at identifying how speakers view their own role and responsibilities as requesters and which contextual variables (for example urgency) lead speakers to make decisions. The qualitative and quantitative data in this study was collected via an online questionnaire and distributed to intermediate and advanced university students of English.
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