The Investigation of Pragmatic Transfer in the Speech Act of Congratulations by Punjabi EFL Learners

Aziz, Asif; Maqsood, Binish; Saleem, Tahir; Azam, Summiya

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“…In terms of speech acts, Austin (1962) defines congratulation as a "performative verb" since the speaker is performing the act of " I congratulate you". whereas, Aziz et al (2018) categorized it within the acknowledgment's acts since they express the speakers' acknowledgments of congratulations (like apologizing, explaining, and greetings) to the listener. Norrick (1987, 285-286) defines it as a speech act when the speaker can observe that the addressee received a positive value.…”

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There are different ways to express positive emotions and feelings when people come across happy occasions. The present study investigates how people pragmatically express congratulations. One hundred and sixteen participants were recruited to answer a DCT which was used as a tool for uncovering the strategies of congratulations and answering the questions: ( 1) what are the main pragmatic strategies for congratulations? ( 2) what are the differences in using these strategies when it comes to males and females? (3) pragmatically, what are the positive politeness strategies used in expressing congratulations? And ( 4) are there any differences between males and females in using these positive politeness strategies? Among the findings revealed seven pragmatic strategies of congratulations saying congratulations, giving good wishes, expressing happiness, using jokes, mentioning the reason, asking for information or details, and giving compliments and encouragement.

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“…In the same way, people use expressions to talk about how they feel and how they think about a certain situation in a certain setting. People say "congratulations on winning the race" instead of "me congratulate you on winning the race" [11]. When it comes to communication, social media makes things simpler and more adaptable.…”

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Pragmatic Analysis of Congratulation Expressions Addressed to Arya Permana Given by Social Media Users

Octaviani,

Haryanto

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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This study aimed to find out what types of congratulatory and politeness strategies are used in congratulating Arya Permana by social media users. The data were collected by using the documentation method. The information for this study came from comments made by Netizens on Born different accounts uploaded on October 18, 2019. Researchers found 25 congratulations from social media users on Facebook. The data ways to analyze, include figuring out, observing, choosing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions. Then analyzed by using classification as conducted by Pishghadam's theory to analyze data (2011) and Elwood's taxonomy with a new model and Brown and Levinson's (1987) theory for politeness methods was used to discover congrats. The results of the study found that there were six types of congratulations and four politeness strategies used by social media users. Offering congratulation has a percentage of 8%. Mentioned opportunity is 24%. Blessing prayers have a percentage of 12%. Expressing feelings have a percentage of 40%. The divine statement is 30%. Bold records have a percentage of 8%, off record have a percentage of 4%, positive politeness has a percentage of 84%, and negative politeness has 4%. Social media users use emotional attitudes in responding to social media and users pay attention to behavior in giving their responses. it shows the presence of all types of politeness strategies used by social media users. The results of this article are expected to add references or expansions regarding the analysis of congratulations.

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“…In Pakistani context, Aziz et al (2018) investigated the speech act of congratulating within the Pakistani Urdu speaking community. The researchers aimed at examining the congratulating strategies used by Pakistani English as a foreign language (EFL) graduate students and the types of positive politeness strategies in the students' responses.…”

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A pragmatic study of congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers

Saleem

Aziz

2022

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act “congratulations” is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation strategies of Pakistani English as second language (ESL) learners and British English speakers under the influence of social distance variable. A quantitative approach is applied in the analysis with the frequency of strategies (semantic formulas) being numerically analyzed. The current study recruited 120 participants, and who were further divided into four different groups: 30 British English speakers, 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the elite class, 30 Pakistani ESL learners of the middle class, and 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the lower class. For data collection, a discourse completion test (DCT) was used as a tool. The findings reveal that the most frequently used types of congratulation strategy are illocutionary force indicating device (IFID) followed by overlapped strategies (a combination of two), an offer of a good wish, expression of happiness, request for information, encouragement, expression of surprise, and suggestion of celebration, while other types of strategies are not used by the participants. The study reveals the existence of crosscultural differences in the use of congratulations by Pakistani ESL learners. The findings further show how the middle and lower class of Pakistani ESL learners use a more elaborated form of compliment responses (CRs) as compared to Pakistani ESL learners of elite and British English speakers. The findings may help in understanding the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of Pakistani ESL learners as compared to British English speakers.

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The Investigation of Pragmatic Transfer in the Speech Act of Congratulations by Punjabi EFL Learners

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