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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe aim of this study is to identify the differences and similarities of the
request strategies used by twenty Chinese Indonesian male and twenty Chinese
Indonesian female students of Petra Christian University in requesting some
money from their father. There were four main theories that are used in this study:
The Request theory by Searle (1976), The Request Strategies by Blum-Kulka
(1989), Social Distance by Holmes (2001), and Gender by Holmes (1992). The
writer found that the Chinese Indonesian male students preferred Indirect Request
as their expression to ask some money to their father and the Chinese Indonesian
female students preferred Direct Request as the head act. The writer also found
that the male students not always show their request directly as our thinking and
the female students can show their request directly because of some factor like
social distance and gender.