A contrastive pragmatic study of politeness strategies in disagreement between native speakers of English and Chinese EFL learners

Chu, Yan

doi:10.1515/cjal-2016-0015

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“…Recently, Yan (2016) has partially replicated Xuehua's (2006) study with DCT by contrasting the disagreement of 35 Americans and 42 Chinese English students in different scenarios. The second scenario verifies the situation that inter-ests us: "In class when your teacher is explaining how to solve a problem, you find the teacher's solution is not correct and you don't agree with her.…”

Section: Main Strategies Of Disagreement Subcategoriesmentioning

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“…Since the first studies on intercultural courtesy the analysis of dissent was carried out taking the purpose of each interaction into consideration (Brown andLevinson ([1978] 1987); Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1997). To achieve this, researchers used some of the patterns that emerged from speech acts and others that resulted from more recent studies (Chen, M. 2006;Xuehua, 2006;Brenes-Peña, 2011;Yan, 2016). They did so with the intention of not reducing the analysis to a single sentence, but rather to observe certain co-occurrences.…”

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‘Don’t You Like Me? Am I Ugly? Or Don’t I Speak Well?’ Analysis of Disagreement and Emotional Exhibition in the Emails of Chinese University Students of Spanish

Velasco

Ainciburu

2020

RLA. Rev. Ling.

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The speech act of disagreement is an area that has received scant attention in the field of interlanguage pragmatics. However, in academic communication the strategies employed in this act of speech precede the development of an argument, a textual genre that is considered central to scholastic positioning. The less equitable the power relationship between the parties (between peers, between teacher and group of students, etc.), the stronger the illocutive intensity of this act. This study aims to investigate the strategies used in an unequal situation (student/lecturer) by Chinese learners of Spanish as a second language in order to perform the speech act of disagreement in their second language. Data relating to 149 Chinese university students were gathered by means of a pedagogical framework-based task in which they had to write an email to their lecturer expressing their disagreement. To identify their sociopragmatic knowledge in a digital environment and its adequacy in an academic Spanish context, the microstructure of their writings was examined for pragmatic moves related to politeness and level of directness. Our results suggest that the Chinese students analysed in the study did not adjust to an appropriate register or manner in academic Spanish.

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Section: Main Strategies Of Disagreement Subcategoriesmentioning

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Section: Introduction: Disagreement In Academic Contextmentioning

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‘Don’t You Like Me? Am I Ugly? Or Don’t I Speak Well?’ Analysis of Disagreement and Emotional Exhibition in the Emails of Chinese University Students of Spanish

Velasco

Ainciburu

2020

RLA. Rev. Ling.

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“…The text of an international agreement is developed mainly in negotiations, whereby mutual concessions and compromises (Yan, 2016), the project is subject to change until it is acceptable to all participants. Thus, the contract is the result of the joint activities of the parties.…”

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Pragmatics of Speech Style in Business Communication as a Tool for Development of Modern Business Linguistics

Shokhayeva

Kalniyazova

Aryn

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Purpose of the study: The study aims to identify, describe, systematize, and compare linguistic means expressing communicative and pragmatic meaning in determining their composition, semantics, and functions in the genres of law, order, and international agreement. The development of linguistic thought is characterized by an increasing interest in the functioning of linguistic units in speech, increased attention to the human factor in the language. Methodology: A communicative-pragmatic approach described the transition from the study of genres as functional and stylistic types of text to their study as special expressions inherent in a certain area of communication. The authors used models of the relationship between linguistic units and their various associations with extra-linguistic situations of communication in a certain sphere of human activity. Main Findings: The authors showed specifics of the representation of the value of the address in an official speech, establishes a repertoire of language means that realize the meaning of address in prescription genres, determines the dependence of the choice of the lexico-grammatical form of means of express the essence of addressing, forms the speech structure of styles. Applications of this study: The work defines the specifics of the conditions of communication in the business sphere; revealed the communicative specificity of stereotyped role manifestations and speech behavior in terms of the functioning of oral and written genres, characteristic for speech communication in the professional sphere. The classification of speech genres is proposed primarily for the business area. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty is determined by the object of research and the enterprise's attempt to make a comprehensive description of the genres of speech communication in business from the position of communicative-pragmatic approach. The communicative-pragmatic method in modern linguistics has updated the research of the specifics of speech communication and language support of speech communication in various spheres of human activity.

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“…This literary work is derived from life. The changeable and refined language greatly enhances its literary quality, which reflects Shakespeare's profound language skills and profound Creative connotation [18][19][20].…”

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Linguistic Features of British and American Literary Works from a Cross-cultural Perspective

2020

IJAID

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With the increasingly frequent economic and cultural exchanges between countries, Britain and the United States, as the veteran capitalist powers in the West, have developed rapidly in economy, technology and education, and the British and American culture has also become more widely spread. Research from a cross-cultural perspective the language of literary works is very necessary. This article aims to study the language characteristics of English and American literature and the importance of understanding the cross-cultural perspective. This article mainly studies British and American literary works from a cross-cultural background, and briefly analyzes the source and characteristics of language art in British and American culture to understand the skills and characteristics of language art in the specific cultural background of British and American literary works. The results of the study show that it is far better to study British and American literature from a cross-cultural perspective than to study British and American literature alone. The language of English and American literary works from the cross-cultural perspective has the characteristics of easy-to-understand. It is found that the study of English and American literary works from a cross-cultural perspective has improved the intelligibility rate by about 20%. The study of the language characteristics of English and American literature works has an important role in promoting.

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A contrastive pragmatic study of politeness strategies in disagreement between native speakers of English and Chinese EFL learners

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

‘Don’t You Like Me? Am I Ugly? Or Don’t I Speak Well?’ Analysis of Disagreement and Emotional Exhibition in the Emails of Chinese University Students of Spanish

‘Don’t You Like Me? Am I Ugly? Or Don’t I Speak Well?’ Analysis of Disagreement and Emotional Exhibition in the Emails of Chinese University Students of Spanish

Pragmatics of Speech Style in Business Communication as a Tool for Development of Modern Business Linguistics

Linguistic Features of British and American Literary Works from a Cross-cultural Perspective

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