Sentence examples for indirect request from inspiring English sources
"The idea Thermodo is actually based on an indirect request from our users," he explained".
For example, question (7.1), as an indirect request for the date or day of the week, can be viewed as indicating the speaker's awareness that the hearer can perform the requested information-conveying act only if the knowledge-precondition of that act is satisfied.
Notably, in a previous fMRI study investigating indirect Request processing (Van Ackeren et al. 2012), the participants were explicitly told to make inferences about utterances, and the results indicated the involvement of the pre-SMA (action system) and anterior cingulate and PFC (theory of mind) for such indirect Request processing.
While users of the World Wide Web ordinarily make direct connections with Web sites to obtain information, Freenet users make indirect requests to other Freenet computers, which in turn send the request onward if they do not have the requested document.
Knowledge of indirect requests has been found in two year olds (Bates 1976: Ch. VIII).
Eleven participants with traumatic brain injury performed tasks in three areas of communication: production (interview situation), comprehension (direct requests, conventional indirect requests, and hints), and metapragmatic knowledge.
Simple direct requests ('Mrs Brown, please walk to the window') were used rather than indirect requests ('Mrs Brown, can you walk to the window for me?').
Fifth, the facilitator will encourage helping by highlighting direct and indirect requests for support by group members, will praise those who offer help (e.g., "Nice suggestion, Margie")., and will encourage additional help (e.g., "Has anyone else found a good way to cope with the problem Joan mentioned?").
Furthermore, since the hearer recognizes that questioning a precondition of a potential act is one indirect way of requesting the act, then (unless the context provides evidence to the contrary) the hearer will make the inference that the speaker wants the hearer to perform the information-conveying speech act.
Because of this indirect contact, as requested by the ethics committee, we anticipated a relatively low initial uptake, particularly among the more socially disadvantaged families.
