Backward Pragmatic Transfer: An Empirical Study on Compliment Responses among Chinese EFL Learners

Cao, Min

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“…Le generazioni più giovani sono ampiamente esposte all'influenza delle lingue e culture occidentali, in particolare all'inglese. Per citare uno tra i numerosi studi che si sono occupati dell'effetto della LS sul cinese, ricordiamo quello di Cao (2016) che ha analizzato il comportamento linguistico di studenti cinesi di inglese di vari livelli di competenza e ha dimostrato che gli apprendenti di inglese sono più inclini a adottare strategie di accettazione del complimento rispetto ai compagni che non studiano l'inglese e che il transfer inverso è potenziato con il progredire della competenza linguistica degli apprendenti.…”

Section: Le Risposte Al Complimento In Cinese In Italiano E In Italia...unclassified

Gli Effetti Della L2 Sulla L1: Uno Studio Sulle Risposte Al Complimento Di Italiani Emigrati in Cina

Samu

2023

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Il transfer pragmatico, secondo la definizione di Kasper (1992), descrive l’influenza esercitata dalla conoscenza pragmatica collegata a lingue e culture diverse dalla L2 sulla comprensione, sulla produzione e sull’acquisizione di informazioni pragmatiche nella L2. Rispetto all’ampia documentazione su questo tipo di transfer nella realizzazione degli atti linguistici, le ricerche sul transfer pragmatico nell’altra direzione, cioè relative all’impatto della L2 sugli usi nella L1, sono relativamente scarse, malgrado la rilevanza dei dati in esse riportati. Il presente studio mira ad ampliare le indagini sul transfer inverso, analizzando le strategie di risposta al complimento utilizzate da italiani madrelingua residenti in Cina, parlanti di cinese. I dati sono stati raccolti tramite un test di completamento del discorso (DCT) scritto e analizzati con l’aiuto di test statistici. I risultati dello studio evidenziano la complessità del fenomeno del transfer pragmatico, di carattere bidirezionale e dipendente da una serie di fattori quali la competenza in L2, l’integrazione nella società d’accoglienza, la scelta del parlante (per lo più inconsapevole) di aderire agli schemi culturali della L1 o della L2, mentre nei nostri dati il tipo di lavoro esercitato non ha un peso notevole. Quest’ultimo aspetto ci permette di riflettere sugli usi linguistici degli insegnanti di italiano emigrati in Cina e sull’importanza di interventi formativi mirati ed efficaci per aiutarli a diventare più consapevoli dei propri usi linguistici. THE EFFECTS OF L2 ON L1: A STUDY ON THE COMPLIMENT RESPONSES OF ITALIAN EMIGRANTS TO CHINA Pragmatic transfer, as defined by Kasper (1992), describes the influence exerted by pragmatic knowledge related to languages and cultures other than the L2 on the understanding, production, and acquisition of pragmatic information in the L2. Compared to the extensive documentation on this type of transfer in the realization of speech acts, research on pragmatic transfer in the other direction, i.e., related to the impact of the L2 on uses in L1, is relatively scarce, despite the relevance of the data reported. The aim of the present study is to broaden research on reverse transfer by analyzing compliment response strategies used by native Italians, speakers of Chinese, living in China. Data were collected through a written discourse completion test (DCT) and analyzed though statistical tests. The results of the study highlight the complexity of the pragmatic transfer phenomenon, which is bidirectional in nature and depends on several factors such as L2 proficiency, integration in the host society, the speaker's (mostly unconscious) choice to adhere to L1 or L2 cultural patterns, while in our data the type of employment has no significant influence. This last aspect allows us to make some considerations about the language uses of native Italian teachers in China and the importance of targeted and effective training interventions to help them become more aware of their own language uses.

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Gli Effetti Della L2 Sulla L1: Uno Studio Sulle Risposte Al Complimento Di Italiani Emigrati in Cina

Samu

2023

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“…A majority of studies on pragmatic transfer deal with the effect of the L1 on the L2 rather than the other way round. Exceptions are studies on bi-directional influence in: compliments (Valdés and Pino, 1981;Cao, 2016), requests (Cenoz, 2003;Sadighi, Chahardahcherik, Delfariyan and Feyzbar, 2018); and refusals and request (Tavakoli and Shirinbakhsh, 2013). Cenoz (2003), for instance, investigated the influence of English L2 on request behaviours of 69 Spanish L1 speakers divided into two groups according to proficiency in English.…”

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How Saudi migrants’ metapragmatic judgments of Arabic L1 nonverbal greetings change after intense and prolonged exposure to English

Alshahrani

Dewaele

2021

IJoLC

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This study investigates the impact of spending more than three years in an English environment on Saudi migrants’ metapragmatic judgments of Arabic L1 nonverbal greetings and their personality traits. Participants are 437 adults comprising three groups: Saudi L2 speakers of English in the UK, Saudis in Saudi Arabia, and British L1 speakers of English in the UK. They observed and rated an audiovisual stimulus illustrating Saudi L1 nonverbal greeting behaviours of handshake and cheek-to-cheek kiss. Statistical analyses revealed that appropriateness ratings by Saudi migrants in the UK diverged from those by Saudis in Saudi Arabia and approximated those of English L1 users in the UK. Moreover, appropriateness ratings by Saudi migrants were differently associated with personality profiles, which differed for three traits between the two Saudi groups. These findings suggest change in L1 metapragmatic judgements as well as personality as a result of prolonged and intense exposure to an L2. The results are interpreted in the light of Cook’s (2012) concept of multicompetence.

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“…Pragmatic transfer phenomena were found in various cases seen in some researchers' works. The first is the fact that the high proficiency foreign language learners had lower pragmatic transfers, due to their ample control over the second/foreign language (Bu, 2012), they also used reversed pragmatic transfers like acceptance strategies in their mother tongue, which were more like English in responding compliments (Cao, 2016). Alhadidi (2017) found out that the first language transfer was higher in the group of Saudi English beginners.…”

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The Pragmatic Transfer of Javanese Sojourners’ English in Conversation Strategies

Ratnadewi

2020

ADJES

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The use of home cultural schemas in English interactions in an English-speaking host country as a form of discrepancy leading to misunderstanding. This study investigated the pragmatic transfer phenomenon, namely the use of Javanese culture in English conversation. It aimed at finding an occurrence of pragmatic transfer in the Javanese English conversation in the host country; the conversation strategies the transfer takes place, and the tendency of pragmatic transfer in the conversational strategies. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and field notes. The analysis used the narrative analysis using vital emergent themes based on the pragmatic transfer principle, the conversational strategy, and the Javanese norms. The result indicated the availability of negative and positive pragmatic transfer in four strategies: making the most of others' praise, indirect response, denial over compliments, mitigating taboo or imposition marked with Javanese terms, idioms, and jargon insertion. Besides, motivation is an essential aspect that determines the existence of pragmatic transfer in English interactions.

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Backward Pragmatic Transfer: An Empirical Study on Compliment Responses among Chinese EFL Learners

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Gli Effetti Della L2 Sulla L1: Uno Studio Sulle Risposte Al Complimento Di Italiani Emigrati in Cina

Gli Effetti Della L2 Sulla L1: Uno Studio Sulle Risposte Al Complimento Di Italiani Emigrati in Cina

How Saudi migrants’ metapragmatic judgments of Arabic L1 nonverbal greetings change after intense and prolonged exposure to English

The Pragmatic Transfer of Javanese Sojourners’ English in Conversation Strategies

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