The Effects Of Sex And Culture On The Apology Performance Of Native English Speakers And Learners

Author : Elaheh Nosratirad
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527502031

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The Effects of Sex and Culture on the Apology Performance of Native English Speakers and Learners by Elaheh Nosratirad Pdf

This book is an original empirical study which contributes to the knowledge and scholarship in the fields of variational, interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics on a number of important levels. It highlights the potential influence of individual, regional and contextual variations, on the language use of native speakers and pragmatic performance of English as a Foreign Language learners, arguing that factors such as gender (operationalised via sex, e.g., female and male) and native culture should be considered in one single study. The book discusses the complexity of the influence of gender on language use, given that its influence may manifest in different ways in different cultures and contexts. Thus, researchers should focus on gender, culture and contextual variation when analysing language use conventions of native speakers and language learners with data highlighting the role of gender in learners’ first and second languages and cultures. The book also introduces findings which show the importance of cross-cultural comparison of Western Anglo-Saxon and Middle-Eastern Persian cultures in a single study and through a cross-culturally comparable data collection method.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015079918986

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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015079680651

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Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eva Ogiermann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254351

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On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures by Eva Ogiermann Pdf

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the correlation between indirectness and politeness underlying their theory. Their theory is applied to two languages that rely less heavily on indirectness in conveying politeness than does English, and to a speech act that does not become more polite through indirectness. An analysis of the face considerations involved in apologising shows that in contrast to disarming apologies, remedial apologies are mainly directed towards positive face needs, which are crucial for the restoration of social equilibrium and maintenance of relationships. The data show that while English apologies are characterised by a relatively strong focus on both interlocutors negative face, Polish apologies display a particular concern for positive face. For Russian speakers, in contrast, apologies seem to involve a lower degree of face threat than they do in the other two languages."

Author : Juliane House,Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108845113

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics by Juliane House,Dániel Z. Kádár Pdf

This book provides an engaging introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics. It is essential reading for both academics and students in pragmatics, applied linguistics, language teaching and translation studies. It offers a corpus-based and empirically-derived framework which allows language use to be systematically contrasted across linguacultures.

Author : Elsayed Mahmoud
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668378391

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Speech acts' requesting and apologizing strategies by native and non-native adolescents English speakers. A comparative research on pragmatic competence by Elsayed Mahmoud Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, British University in Dubai, language: English, abstract: Considering the importance of pragmatic competence, this paper analyzed the speech acts for requesting and apologizing strategies between native and non-native speakers of English. To analyze written discourse in the classrooms, four international secondary schools in Dubai, UAE have been selected. The study was conducted in the second semester of the academic year 2012-2013. The study is not controlled for gender as this factor does not have a significant impact on this study, while the age is controlled. In order to analyze written discourse, a mixed methods research for speech acts of requests and apologies was applied. To this end, the DCT of Blum-Kulka et al. was adapted and developed by the researcher. Every DCT contains eight scripted scenarios for requests and the same number of scripted scenarios for apologies. Each describes situations that specify social distance, imposition and power between the participants. The dependent variables are requests and speech act sets of apologies, while the independent variables are social distance, size of imposition, power. In this study, all these variables could be low (L) or High (H).The data revealed that there are some similarities between the participants, supporting the fact that there are universal politeness strategies. However, the data also revealed some differences between the native and non-native speakers' strategies.

Author : Robin J. Edmundson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Apologizing
ISBN : IND:30000001711948

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Evidence for Native Speaker Notions of Apologizing and Accepting Apologies in American English by Robin J. Edmundson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131550340

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183017896501

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Current Index to Journals in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Natalie Lewis
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638268981

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Compliment Responses in Different Languages and the Problem of Sociocultural Transfer in SLA by Natalie Lewis Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0 (B), Free University of Berlin (Institute for English Philology), course: Second Language Aquisition, language: English, abstract: In most speech communities, the speech act of complimenting is a well established politeness strategy. While the giving of and responding to compliments can be regarded as rather universal across different languages and cultures, the form, frequency and function of compliments and compliment responses significantly varies. In the following chapters, I would like to compare English compliment responses to realizations of the same speech act in Chinese and German. Since the 1970s, sociolinguists have turned towards research on communicative competence, thereby focussing on native speaker’s performance of speech acts (e.g. compliments, apologies, requests, complaints etc.). In the last three decades, the speech event of complimenting and compliment responding has been one of the major areas on which sociolinguistic research has focussed on. There are extens ive studies on this respective speech act in American English (e.g. Pomerantz 1978, Manes and Wolfson 1980) as well as comparative cross-cultural research on complimenting behavior, examining the differences in speech act realization between variants of English (American /Irish , e.g. Schneider 1999; American /South African, e.g. Herbert 1989), and between English and other languages (Chinese, e.g. Chen 1993; German, e.g. Golato 2002). These studies of communicative competence make apparent that communicating effectively and efficiently in a language requires more than just linguistic knowledge; the ability to use this linguistic knowledge appropriately in the given sociocultural context is also essential. Learners with insufficient pragmatic knowledge frequently transfer patterns from their native language into the foreign language. Second language teaching profits from studies in communicative competence because it provides teachers with information on realization strategies concerning certain speech acts in different languages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-02
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010536997

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Flores Salgado
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285034

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The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies by Elizabeth Flores Salgado Pdf

The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency levels were asked to respond in English to 24 different situations that called for the speech acts of request and apology. Results showed three important aspects. The first finding suggested that basic adult learners possess a pragmatic knowledge in their L1 that allows them to focus on the intended meaning and, in most cases, to assemble an utterance that conveys a pragmatic intention and satisfies the communicative demands of a social situation. The second finding revealed that there are two essential conditions to communicate a linguistic action: the knowledge of the relevant linguistic rules and the knowledge of how to use them appropriately and effectively in a specific context. The findings further suggested that advanced learners possess the grammatical knowledge to produce an illocutionary act, but they need to learn the specific L2 pragmatic conventions that enable them to know when to use these grammatical forms and under which circumstances.

Author : Shoshana Blum-Kulka,Juliane House,Gabriele Kasper
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X001591297

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Cross-cultural Pragmatics by Shoshana Blum-Kulka,Juliane House,Gabriele Kasper Pdf

Author : Rosina Márquez Reiter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298935

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Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay by Rosina Márquez Reiter Pdf

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures. Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.

Author : Kenneth R. Rose,Gabriele Kasper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521803799

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Pragmatics in Language Teaching by Kenneth R. Rose,Gabriele Kasper Pdf

Pragmatics in Language Teaching examines the acquisition of language use in social contexts in second and foreign language classrooms. Included are 2 state-of-the-art survey chapters, and 11 chapters reporting the results of empirical research. The empirical studies cover three areas: incidental acquisition of pragmatics in instructed contexts, the effects of instruction in pragmatics, and the assessment of pragmatics ability. The studies address a number of areas in pragmatics, from speech acts and discourse markers to conversational routines and address terms, and represent a range of target languages and contexts in the United States, Asia, and Europe.