Studying Compliment Responses: A Comparison of DCTs and Recordings of Naturally Occurring Talk

On the Applicability of Cultural Scripts in Teaching L2 Compliments

“…They include: (a) discourse completion tasks and questionnaires (e.g., Barnlund and Akari, 1985;Sharifian, 2005;Tang and Zhang, 2009), (b) recall protocols (e.g., Knapp et al, 1984), (c) role play (e.g., Saito and Beecken, 1997), (d) field observation (e.g., Wolfson and Manes, 1980;Herbert and Straight, 1989, and several others) and (e) conversation and discourse analysis (Pomerantz, 1978;Wieland, 1995;Golato, 2002). Golato (2003) discussed the merits and demerits of each of these methods of data collection, noting that each of them allows the researcher to investigate different facets of the topic at hand. Furthermore, she argued that conversation analysis (CA) is well suited for the close study of culturally determined speech events since it makes use of video-and/or audio taped samples of non-elicited face-to-face or telephone conversations, thus allowing for the repeated and detailed analysis of a phenomenon in its sequential context.…”

“…Since the data are always spontaneous, they represent what speakers are actually doing in conversation. Crucially, they do not represent speakers' intuitions, which are not always reliable in such contexts (Golato, 2003). Following the recommendation by Golato (2003), the researchers used naturally occurring interview data which was recorded.…”

Is It Rude Language? Children Learning Pragmatics Through Visual Narrative

“…However, since the levels of politeness and formality of the target expressions introduced in the instruction in this study were often closely intertwined, these two concepts were presented to the learners in relation to each other. 4 Although data elicited through DCTs may not accurately reflect natural speech and their validity has been questioned (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig & Hartford, 2005;Ellis, 2008;Golato, 2003), DCTs can serve as a useful pedagogical tool and a viable instrument in eliciting learners' pragmatic production as well as their pragmatic knowledge (Rose, 2009). 5 Samples of the interactional data in this paper were translated into English by the author and validated by another bilingual speaker using the back translation technique.…”

Polite appearances: How non-manual features convey politeness in British Sign Language

“…DCTs, the method employed by both Hoza (2001Hoza ( , 2007 and George (2011), have been found to influence lexical choice. For example, Golato (2003) found that, in German, 'danke' was found more often in written discourse completion responses than in naturally occurring dialogue for compliments. By combining the elicitation of comments within general interview dialogue about participants' use of language, I have attempted to broaden the scope of the data generated.…”