Intercultural pragmatics, language and society

Blum‐Kulka, Shoshana; Blondheim, Menahem; House, Juliane; Kasper, Gabriele; Wagner, Johannes

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“…Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 6/9/15 3:18 PM Brown and Levinson's positive and negative politeness theory (1987) has also inspired many comparative studies on requests in cross-cultural pragmatics Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper 1989;Elsamirasekh 1993;Sifianou 1993;Fukushima 1996;Le Pair 1996;Van Mulken 1996;Rue and Zhang 2008). In general, these studies adopted the "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project", or CCSARP, analytical method, developed by Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper (1989) using discourse completion tasks and production questionnaires as the method of data collection.…”

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“…In general, these studies adopted the "Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project", or CCSARP, analytical method, developed by Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper (1989) using discourse completion tasks and production questionnaires as the method of data collection. The aim of these cross-cultural studies was to examine similarities and differences between politeness strategies employed by speakers when making requests and apologies in a number of languages (English, Canadian French, Hebrew, Argentinian Spanish, Russian, German, Thai, Chinese and Korean).…”

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“…Also inspired by Blum-Kulka et al (1989) and Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory, Salmani-Nodoushan (2008) investigates the notion of indirectness in the speech act of requests among speakers of Persian. Using the Discourse Completion Test (DCT) with six scenarios ranging from formal to informal degrees of Perceived Situational Seriousness, Salmani-Nodoushan reports that native speakers of Persian, in general, prefer conventionally indirect strategies when making requests.…”

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“…or look over here!. This request formulation has also been referred to as direct requests (Brown and Levinson 1987;Blum-Kulka et al 1989) or orders.…”

Section: An Interactional Approach To Requests In Persian and Germanmentioning

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11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization

Taleghani–Nikazm¹,

Andersen²,

Aijmer³

2011

Pragmatics of Society

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Requests can be linguistically realized by means of interrogatives, imperatives, and declaratives. This conversation analytical study provides an empirical examination of instances of requests implemented as interrogatives and imperatives in two different cultures, namely Persian and German. The paper begins with a discussion of some influential and prolific cross-linguistic studies on requests (section 1). While presenting their findings, the paper focuses on methodological approaches, such as Brown and Levinson's (1987) instrumental politeness theory, that these studies have in developing their examination of requests and tackles some general concerns regarding the fitting approach to the study of requests and orders (1.2). The paper continues with a section that provides an overview of the most recent studies on requests and orders within a conversation analytical framework (1.2). Following a description of the corpus (section 2), the paper focuses on requests constructed as interrogative and imperative in everyday Persian and German conversations and analyzes the specifics of their socio-contextual and sequential organization (section 3). While comparing occurrences of requests formulated as interrogative and imperative in Persian and German, the paper demonstrates how the distributional patterns of the two formats may not only be related to social/cultural factors but rather to speakers' orientation and understanding of the contextual particularities associated with their request. The paper concludes with a discussion of how cross-linguistic comparison of interactional organization of requests as interrogative and imperative in Persian and German exhibit commonalities in how grammatical composition of social activities is shaped by the interactional environment in which they occur (section 4).

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“…or look over here!. This request formulation has also been referred to as direct requests (Brown and Levinson 1987;Blum-Kulka et al 1989) or orders.…”

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11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization

Taleghani–Nikazm¹,

Andersen²,

Aijmer³

2011

Pragmatics of Society

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“…The present study attends to the interaction triggered by an intercultural intertext between a text and its foreign reader. Blum-Kulka, Blondheim, House, Kasper, and Wagner (2008) treat interculturality as discursive construction. They conceptualize interculturality as 'a contingent interactional accomplishment' (Blum-Kulka et al, 2008, p. 164).…”

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Intercultural intertexts encountered by Taiwanese EFL students

Shie¹

2013

Language and Intercultural Communication

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This paper reports on an exploratory study of one specific aspect of intercultural literacy: the activation of intercultural intertexts. Readers of intercultural intertexts fall into two general groups: knowing readers (who know the source text) and unknowing readers (who do not know the source text). This paper aims to explore Taiwanese unknowing students' responses to Western-derived allusive intertexts. Eight instances of intercultural intertexts were drawn systematically from the article titles of the British magazine spiked for 16 Taiwanese college students to read, who had a required level of proficiency to skim spiked articles. Qualitative data about their reactions to the intertexts were drawn for analysis from semi-structured one-on-one interviews. In addition, the eight magazine articles were taught to 82 Taiwanese unknowing students without a required level of proficiency. A brief questionnaire was then conducted to probe into their motivations to learn intercultural intertexts. The results show that the interviewees generally felt positively about the intertexts and that most of the interviewees and questionnaire respondents were motivated to learn such intertexts. The findings indicate that it is not only theoretically but also practically worthwhile to inquire further into unknowing readers' responses to and interest in learning intercultural intertexts.

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Chinese University Students’ Development of Pragmatic Skills in L2 Italian: A Corpus-Based Study

Scibetta

2016

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016

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Intercultural pragmatics, language and society

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11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization

11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization

Intercultural intertexts encountered by Taiwanese EFL students

Chinese University Students’ Development of Pragmatic Skills in L2 Italian: A Corpus-Based Study

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