Abstract
Discourse Completion Test (DCT) became a very popular research instrument after
the publication of the infl uential Blum-Kulka & Olshtain’s (1984) paper titled
“Requests and apologies: a cross-cultural study of speech act realization patterns
(CCSARP)”. Hundreds and thousands of papers employing the data collection instrument,
originally developed by Blum-Kulka in 1982, have been published since
then, and the controlled elicitation procedure has left a very important mark on the
way in which speech acts have been studied cross-culturally. DCT has its strong
supporters as well as pronounced enemies, but its contribution to the development
of the fi eld cannot be questioned. The paper presents an overview of the advantages
and disadvantages of the data collection tool, as well as a synthesis of the most important
fi ndings which it has managed to yield so far. Major directions of research
are summarized and possible future developments outlined.
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