摘要：AbstractOur paper deals with the comparison of requests formulation in politeness speech acts of narrow and broad categories in English, German and Slovak languages. We focus on the analysis of social influence on speech production of narrow and broad categorizations in terms of different information processing in different languages. The research was conducted at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. A remarkable finding is the use of more advanced politeness elements in the speech acts of broad categorizers in German language in situations of social distance and social dominance.
