Pragmatic development in a foreign language: A study of Greek FL requests

Bella, Spyridoula

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.08.014

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“…For instance, Hassall (2001Hassall ( , 2003Hassall ( , 2012 showed that, in comparison to the native speaker group, Australian adult learners of Indonesian rarely use internal modifiers during the performance of role plays. Similar results are obtained in the studies conducted by Félix-Brasdefer (2012) and Bella (2012). The former examines the use of request mitigators by learners of Spanish as a second language, while the latter deals with the use of modification devices used by learners of Greek.…”

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Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation

Soler

2013

Multilingua

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The study analyses teenagers' e-mail requests during academic cyberconsultation, exploring how the performance of request modifiers is influenced by participants' perceptions of the degree of imposition of the speech act and social distance with the recipient. A total of 295 e-mail requests, 145 produced by British English speakers (BES) and 150 performed by International English speakers (IES), were randomly selected from all the e-mail requests that International Baccalaureate students sent to their learning mentor between September and December 2011. They were analysed with regard to the use of internal and external request mitigators and participants' judgments of the degree of request imposition and social distance with the e-mail recipient. Results of the study show that participants do not frequently rely on mitigators, but whenever they perceive the need to mitigate the request, pragmatic variation is observed between BES and IES. Thus, when the request is perceived as demanding, BES activate their pragmalinguistic knowledge and use a wider range of internal modifiers (both lexical and syntactic). In contrast, IES seem to lack pragmalinguistic knowledge to soften the request. Finally, although teenagers do not perceive their relationship with their learning mentor as one of +social distance, BES and IES show variation in their choice of form of address. Findings from the study suggest the need to incorporate training on e-mail politeness in future pragmatics-based pedagogical interventions.

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Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation

Soler

2013

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“…The three situations focusing on requests (one formal and two informal request situations) were analyzed. These three situations varied in power and social distance (as defined by Brown & Levinson, ), were adopted from Bella (), and are described below: Kitchen Situation (‐Power, ‐Distance): The subject's roommate had a party last night and left the kitchen messy. The subject is expecting visitors today and has to ask the roommate to clean up before these visitors arrive.…”

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“…Learning such mitigating devices represents a crucial aspect of L2 learners’ pragmatic competence. Consequently, a number of ILP studies have focused on exploring the linguistic structures that are used to make requests by L2 learners of different target languages, including Arabic (Al‐Gahtani & Roever, , , ), English (Færch & Kasper, ; Göy, Zeyrek, & Otcu, 2012; Schauer, ; Trosborg, ), Greek (Bella, ), Indonesian (Hassall, ), and Spanish (Félix‐Brasdefer, ).…”

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Interlanguage Pragmatic Development: Internal and External Modification in L2 Arabic Requests

Masaeed

2017

Foreign Language Annals

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This study investigated the way in which American university students learning Arabic as a foreign language in the United States developed the ability to make and modify requests both internally, through an addition of mitigating or aggravating modality markers, and externally, via supportive moves before or after the main request in formal and informal situations. Data were gathered from spoken discourse completion tasks for 56 university students from four different proficiency levels. While previous studies showed that learners at lower proficiency levels relied heavily on politeness markers, lower‐proficiency students in this study most frequently used grounders. Also in contrast to previous studies, the ways in which advanced learners mitigated their requests diverged from those used by Arabic native speakers. Pedagogical implications are discussed.

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“…Mitigazione, italiano LS e scrittura accademica 349 Questo strumento originale, almeno in relazione alla ricerca sulla lingua italiana come lingua per lo studio, prende spunto da alcune sperimentazioni realizzate recentemente (Nguyen 2008;Czerwionka 2012;Bella 2012) e riadattate alle specifiche circostanze in cui ci si è trovati ad operare. Il test si propone di rispondere ad alcune domande di ricerca, quali:…”

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La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio

2018

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Pragmatic development in a foreign language: A study of Greek FL requests

Cited by 75 publications

References 33 publications

Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation

Mitigating e-mail requests in teenagers’ first and second language academic cyber-consultation

Interlanguage Pragmatic Development: Internal and External Modification in L2 Arabic Requests

La didattica delle lingue nel nuovo millennio

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