Politeness strategies in requests in the thorn birds

... Scales of indirectness in requests ………………………………….…………… 19 Chapter 2: Politeness strategies in requests in The Thorn Birds 22 2.1 Positive politeness strategies in requests in The Thorn Birds ... of the utterances containing the requests made by characters in The Thorn Birds Overview of the work The Thorn Birds - as the comment of Sweetie Pie in his “A Book Review of The Thorn Birds :... decided to choose the topic: Politeness strategies in requests in The thorn birds Aims of the study - To explore how politeness strategies are manifested in the requests in the English language