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Abstract
Drawing on speech act theory, the article analyzes the strategies used to perform requests, refusals and compliments in Uzbek. It shows how these acts relate to communicative etiquette, social distance and the principle of face preservation. Requests are classified by direct and indirect forms, refusals by semantic formulas, and compliments and their responses by cultural and discursive features. The significance of the findings for translation and language teaching is also discussed.
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