Refusing Invitations: A Contrastive Pragmatic Study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish
Asim Alkhawaldeh,
Ali Al ewaidat,
Anas Huneety
et al.
Abstract: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… Show more
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