Offers and Offer Refusals

Anchimbe, Eric A.

doi:10.1075/pbns.298

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“…However, the Spanish participants were observed to use slightly more direct strategies, which may be attributed to that Spanish society is less collectivistic than its Jordanian counterpart. Collectivist cultures are inclined to be more indirect in their style of communication as they display a greater concern for preserving interpersonal harmony and avoiding offense and embarrassment (Anchimbe, 2018).…”

Section: Direct Refusal Strategiesmentioning

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Refusing Invitations: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish

Alkhawaldeh,

Al ewaidat,

Huneety

et al. 2023

Hum

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Objectives: The study aimed at examining the use of refusals by Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish speakers when declining invitations from their friends, focusing on similarities and differences in terms of head strategies, adjuncts, order, and frequency. Methods: A discourse completion task (DCT) comprising various situations were designed to elicit refusals from the participants. Drawing on Beebe et al’s categorization (1990), the data were categorized into head acts (subdivided into direct and indirect strategies) and adjuncts to refusal. Results: Although the Jordanian and Spanish participants belong to two distant cultures (eastern and western), the findings revealed that they were more similar than different in their refusals. They both showed a stronger tendency for indirectness in refusing invitations, with the Jordanians being more indirect. Both groups commonly utilized the strategies of statement of regret, giving reason, and negative ability, with different degrees of preference and frequency. As for adjuncts, both groups were inclined to employ a high percentage of adjuncts either before or after head strategies of refusal. While the Jordanians preferred the adjuncts of gratitude and swearing, the Spanish participants preferred gratitude and positive opinion. Both groups showed predilection to combine the same typical components in their refusal responses but differ in the order in which these components appeared. The employment of indirect refusal strategies and adjuncts in the Jordanian and Spanish responses pragmatically served to mitigate potentially negative effects of refusal on the inviters. Conclusion: Further research on Jordanian and Spanish refusals in other situations is recommended.

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Section: Direct Refusal Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Refusing Invitations: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish

Alkhawaldeh,

Al ewaidat,

Huneety

et al. 2023

Hum

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“…Over the last two decades, positionality has become an explicit concern for scholars in applied linguistics (Phipps, 2019), critical sociolinguistics (Heller et al, 2016), and pragmatics more broadly (see, for example, the various calls for a 'postcolonial turn: ' Anchimbe, 2018;Ameka and Terkourafi, 2019). For forensic linguists taking up expert duties, reflexive awareness of the modalities of one's courtroom engagements has of course long since formed part of their professional habitus.…”

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Engaging with the field while studying language in the legal process: Windows of engagement and normative moorings

D’hondt

May

2022

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Like the postcolonial pragmatics of Anchimbe and Janney (Anchimbe 2018;Anchimbe & Janney 2011), postcolonial semantics does not confine itself to the themes and theorems of postcolonial and decolonial theories in literary and cultural studies. The decolonization of different academic fields and subfields requires different measures.…”

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Postcolonial Semantics

Levisen

2022

Scanstudlang

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“Postcolonial semantics” is the study of meaning and meaning- making in postcolonial contexts, and at the same time, it is a way of articulating and mediating metasemantic critique. In this paper, my aim is to provide a brief overview of postcolonial semantics as an emerging field and approach, focusing on central concepts and analytical scopes. The theoretical backdrop for the establishment of postcolonial semantics is partly found in the developments of new fields, such as colonial and postcolonial linguistics, postcolonial pragmatics, and decolonial linguistics, and partly in the cognitive and cultural renewals of linguistic semantics. The cognitive cultural semantics to which this special issue is devoted is a conceptual kind of semantics, as opposed to a “realist” (or “referential”) semantics. It is also a semantics of “understanding” (U-semantics), rather than a semantics of “truth” (T-semantics). Synthesizing the overall aims of these movements, we can say that postcolonial semantics is a conceptual and U-semantic approach to the linguacultural complexities that colonial language encounters have brought about, and an approach that combines cultural and critical perspectives. Postcolonial semantics engages critically with the semantic conceptualizations born out of colonial-era linguistic worldviews, especially in the form of a critique of the terminological and conceptual biases that have entered into the frameworks of modern cognitive and social sciences, including Eurocentric and Anglocentric concepts and terminologies that characterize the vocabulary and priorities of modern linguistics.

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Offers and Offer Refusals

Cited by 19 publications

References 109 publications

Refusing Invitations: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish

Refusing Invitations: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish

Engaging with the field while studying language in the legal process: Windows of engagement and normative moorings

Postcolonial Semantics

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