Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Strategy Use in Egyptian Arabic and American English Refusals

Nelson, Gayle L.; Carson, Joan G.; Batal, Mahmoud Al; Bakary, Waguida El

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“…Nelson et al (2002) performed an investigation of Egyptian and US English refusals in the two languages separately and simultaneously but with no discussion of interlanguage transfer. In a similar study, Nelson et al (2002b) challenged the results of previous studies which found that Jordanians used more indirect strategies than Americans. Their study indicated that both Egyptians and Americans used comparable strategies with similar frequency, but these differences in the findings may be the result of a difference in methodology (data collection via written discourse completion tasks versus interviews, since the written form of Arabic is formal and differs significantly from the spoken variety).…”

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Refusals in the Production of Serbian Esp Learners

Rešetar

Knežević

2017

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Refusals in the Production of Serbian Esp Learners

Rešetar

Knežević

2017

FU Ling Lit

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“…Kasper (2000, p.329) states that DCT is an effective data collection instrument when the objective of the investigation is "to inform the speakers' pragmalinguistic knowledge of the strategic and linguistic by which communicative acts can be implemented, and about their sociopragmatic knowledge under which particular strategies and linguistic choice forms are appropriate". Nelson, Carson, Al Batal, and El Bakary (2002) also support the use of DCT when they point out that DCT can be applied directly to participants from various background since it allows control over participants' variables such as status and ethnic background.…”

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Refusal Strategies Used by Malay Esl Studentsand English Native Speakers to Refuse a Request

Saad

Bidin

Shabdin

2016

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ABSTRACT:The present study investigates similarities and differences of a speech act of refusal in English as realized by Malay Speakers of English (MSE) and Native Speakers of English (NSE). The study examined the types and also the contents of the strategies used by the two groups when refusing a request made by a higher status interlocutor. An Enhanced Open Role-play was utilized to obtain data on the types and content of refusal strategies. Participants of the study comprised 12 MSE undergraduate students from a local university and 12 NSE who were IGSCE and Diploma Baccalaureate students from an international school who had refused to the higher status interlocutor's request. Qualitative data analytic methods were used to analyse the data which were classified into semantic refusal strategies and politeness strategies. Brown's and Levinson's politeness theory, Hofstede's cultural dimensions and Hall's high-and low-context cultures were used to guide the study. The findings revealed that the two groups shared many similarities in terms of types and contents of the strategies when refusing to the higher status interlocutor's requests. Nevertheless, the NSE demonstrated a higher use of direct strategies and the content of their indirect strategies and adjuncts to refusal strategies reflect the western individualistic values. The MSEs,' on the other hand exhibited the eastern values which prioritize group's importance. These findings provide further insights on the complexities of refusal interaction and the patterns could be used by English language teachers as pragmatic input to develop English as a Second Language students' ability to use socially appropriate language for the situation they encounter.

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“…A lack of contextual variation (Rose, 1994;Rose & Ono, 1995), a simplification of complex interactions (Brown & Levinson, 1987), and the hypothetical nature of the situation are among the drawbacks of exploiting DCTs. Moreover, according to Nelson et al (2002), the utterances of people show a discrepancy in an assumed position compared with authentic situation. However, the other methods of data collection are not without boundaries and pitfalls, either.…”

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“…However, the other methods of data collection are not without boundaries and pitfalls, either. To name some, problems due to control over gender and status, problems related to the role that memory plays over the process of note taking and last but not least time-consuming nature of data Brought to you by | MIT Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/9/18 6:11 PM collection; all of which according to Cohen (1996) are amongst the potential problems and according to Nelson et al (2002) are considered as the pitfalls of the naturalistic data.…”

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Politeness strategies in written communications: the issue of Iranian EFL learners

Karimkhanlooei

Vaezi

2017

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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The approximation of the pragmatic knowledge of English language learners to native speakers has been a realm of concern for the scholars and researchers in applied linguistics. Thus, this research was an endeavor to figure out the association between the proficiency level and politeness strategies and external/internal modifications in written communication skills in the speech act of requests in Iranian English language learners. To this end, a written Discourse Completion Test (DCT), adapted from Rose (1994), including 8 situations was administered to elicit data from Iran Language Institute120 female and male EFL learners, 60 upper-intermediate and 60 intermediate. The data were sorted out using Brown and Levinson's politeness strategies taxonomy (Brown and Levinson 1987) and external/internal modifications developed by Faerch and Kasper (1989). The written request utterances provided by each participant were analyzed in terms of frequency and types of politeness strategies, namely, positive, negative, bald on record, and off-record as well as external/internal modifications utilized in requests. The Pearson Chi-Square test results revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between upperintermediate and intermediate learners' type of politeness strategies and external/internal modifications.

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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Strategy Use in Egyptian Arabic and American English Refusals

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