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Intercultural Pragmatics· 2026Q1

Intercultural and interlanguage pragmatic adaptation in progress: Internal modifications of teacher requests by international GTAs across diverse UK university classroom scenarios

Xueting Ban

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Chinese GTAs in UK universities reduced their use of internal modification strategies (IMSs) in teacher requests over time, shifting towards lexical/phrasal downgraders/upgraders for clarity and reducing syntactic downgraders and explicit politeness markers.

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