TY - THES AU - Caldero Cornejo, Juan Antonio A3 - Ahern, Aoife Kathleen PY - 2016 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/21476 AB - As it is known (Haverkate 1994, Bravo 1996; 1998, Hernández 2002) in Spanish, interlocutors prefer to choose a more direct and assertive way of saying things, while in English the opposite, i.e. less direct and less assertive seems to be the norm.... LA - spa PB - Universidad Complutense de Madrid KW - Lengua Española KW - Spanish language TI - Percepción de la (des)cortesía de los actos exhortativos en la adquisición del español por dicentes de E/LE M3 - doctoral thesis ER -