'I Very Appreciate': Expressions of Gratitude by Native and Non-native Speakers of American English

Eisenstein, Miriam; Bodman, Jean W.

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“…One interesting point observed was that generally in all of these situations, involving both big and small favors, participants tried to keep their utterances relatively short and brief. This result is in agreement with the findings of Eisenstein and Bodman (1986) and confirms one aspect of Wolfson's Bulge Theory (1989), which is, identifying brevity in communications between socially distant interlocutors.…”

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“…While in American English expressing the thanks for favors, gifts or services is deemed appropriate and anticipated, for Marathi and Hindi giving thanks to family members or close friends for favors breaches the feeling of closeness since it is the responsibility of family members and close friends to assist each other. Eisenstein & Bodman, (1986), Bodman & Eisenstein (1988) made a comparison of the use of expressions of gratitude by groups of participants having diverse language backgrounds and American English native speakers. They found out that while certain language groups outperformed others, e.g.…”

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A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Gratitude Strategies between Iranian and Malaysian Postgraduate Students

Farashaiyan

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2012

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This study describes and compares the gratitude strategies utilized by Iranian EFL and Malaysian ESL learners in facing different situations. Data were cumulated from 20 Iranian and 20 Malaysian postgraduate university students having the same language proficiency through a Discourse Completion Tasks Questionnaire. Social status, size of imposition and gender are contextual and social variables which were investigated for two groups of learners in this study. Results of the study illustrated certain commonalities and differentials in terms of the strategies and type of gratitude used by Iranian and Malaysian students. A detailed analysis of the use of the gratitude strategies revealed significant differences in communicative ways of Iranian and Malaysian postgraduate students reflecting insights into understanding the differences in cultural values and norms in two non-western cultures. The results also illustrated that the two contextual factors and gender affect significantly on the type and frequency of the strategies.

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A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Gratitude Strategies between Iranian and Malaysian Postgraduate Students

Farashaiyan

Tan²

2012

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“…For example, Eisenstein and Bodman (1986) conducted the most comprehensive study of thanking in native and non-native speakers of English such as those from Japan, Spain, South Korea, China and Russia. They noted that thank you can be used ironically and have the illocutionary function of accepting or rejecting an offer and signaling the conclusion of the conversation, besides its usual function of expressing gratitude.…”

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On Appropriacy of Thanking: Dynamic Compensation and Adaptation

Liao¹

2013

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Appropriacy is the paramount consideration of such an inherently polite speech act as thanking in its use. Traditional study of thanking focuses more on the quantitative investigation of its diverse forms and functions than on interpretation of the process in which it is used appropriately and adequately or not among English native or nonnative speakers. This paper particularly explores how to make the speech act of thanking appropriate and acceptable in dynamic context from the perspective of Chinese EFL learners who tend to respond in mute English or Chinglish in cross-culture thanking situation through analysis of the spoken discourse based on cognitive and cultural comparative approach. It contents that in foreign language learning environment, L2 contextual knowledge also comes into compensation for the lack of authentic context compatible with L2 use in the diachronic process of EFL learning as L1 contextual knowledge does. In a specific communicative situation, the learner has to manipulate his contextual cognition consciously and make an appropriate choice among linguistic or strategic forms activated by the two types of contextual knowledge stored in memory. The choice-making needs considering adaptation to dynamic context like the objects of gratitude, the benefactor's psychological state and the communicative social context as the most important parameters. Only in that way is appropriacy of thanking possible in cross-cultural communication.

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“…Eisenstein and Bodman 1986;Hinkel 1994;Cheng 2010). One solution to this, as suggested by Aijmer (1996), is to explore how the routines of particular speech acts can be adequately described, which would also be helpful for language teaching.…”

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“Thank bloody God it’s Friday”: A Local Grammar of Thanking

2017

Corpus Pragmatics

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This paper presents a local grammar of thanking in English, aiming to further demonstrate the feasibility of using a local grammar approach to account for speech acts and also to contribute to the on-going development of corpus pragmatics. The corpus used for the study is compiled of those texts categorised as 'Spoken-conversation' in the British National Corpus. Conventionalised realisations of thanking are identified and used as search terms to retrieve automatically instances of thanking. The retrieved instances are then manually examined to make sure that all instances to be analysed have the illocutionary force of thanking. The subsequent analyses suggest 7 functional labels that are needed for a local grammar description of gratitude expressions and identify 29 local grammar patterns. The implications and applications of research on local grammars of speech acts are discussed. It is concluded that local grammars can contribute substantially to the description of speech act realisations, and therefore more research on local grammars of speech acts are desirable and valuable.

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'I Very Appreciate': Expressions of Gratitude by Native and Non-native Speakers of American English

Cited by 167 publications

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A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Gratitude Strategies between Iranian and Malaysian Postgraduate Students

A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Gratitude Strategies between Iranian and Malaysian Postgraduate Students

On Appropriacy of Thanking: Dynamic Compensation and Adaptation

“Thank bloody God it’s Friday”: A Local Grammar of Thanking

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