Wie zijn er nu toleranter? De perceptie van imperatieven in het Pools en het Nederlands in een informele context
Who is More Tolerant? The Perception of Imperatives in Polish and in Dutch in an Informal Context

Summary/Abstract: This contribution focuses on the perception of the imperative forms in spontaneous informal conversations among native speakers of Polish and Dutch, and reports on a pilot survey of standards of politeness. Since imperatives in Polish and Dutch are used qualitatively and quantitatively in a different way, we can assume that their perception is also different for native speakers of both languages. Using a survey consisting of, among other things, an assessment task, an attempt was made to investigate how polite the respondents think the imperative forms are, and how their assessment is influenced by the context of the utterance.

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