Will you (not) pass the salt? Bias in negated questions lowers politeness in Czech
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The study tested the relationship of speaker bias and perceived politeness in Czech requests.The results of the study show that Czech speakers consider the inclusion of negation in indirect polar question requests as less polite when no modal verb is present. This goes against the long-assumed behaviour of negation in Czech requests. We interpret these results as evidence of the epistemic speaker bias introduced by negation in polar questions interfering with politeness. |
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