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Alrefaee, Yasser; Al-Ghamdi, Naimah; Almansoob, Najeeb – Online Submission, 2019
The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peterson, Joseph; Thundyil, Zacharias – 1971
This questionnaire presents about 450 phonological, lexical, and grammatical items that are used in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In composing the dialect survey, terms pertaining to climate, topography, and ethnic groups were taken into account, as were other words and phrases which might be used by Upper Peninsula native speakers. The survey…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Usage