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Mansooreh Dashti Khavidaki – SAGE Open, 2023
The significance of producing socially appropriate utterances, not just linguistically correct ones, has given rise to a plethora of studies on speech acts. In this regard, the performance of second and foreign language learners against the norms of the target language and the factors affecting them have yet to be thoroughly investigated. To…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Social Distance, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
Pikul Kulsawang; Eric A. Ambele – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study aims to examine the diverse strategies employed in apology and request, investigate the influence of cultural factors, social power, and social distance on these strategies, and explore the existing limitations and gaps in the literature for future research. Data collection is conducted using the qualitative technique. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
David Barny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Following the social turn in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the 1990s (Block, 2003), researchers have increasingly focused on the emic perspective of learners. As a result, identity, subjectivity, and agency have come to the forefront in SLA research. In an effort to afford learners the means to negotiate meaning more freely and to position…
Descriptors: French, Perspective Taking, Computer Simulation, Educational Games
Eko Suwignyo; Dwi Rukmini; Rudi Hartono; Hendi Pratama – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
The present study analyses the impoliteness of criticism over social status and distance, incorporating the concept of "levels of imposition." Criticism as a fundamental speech act is commonly used by people in the modern era, either in the digital world or the real world. It usually contains impoliteness if it embodies negative…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Pilar Safont – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study focuses on email communication in the multilingual university setting. Previous studies dealing with similar settings point to the lack of politeness markers in students' email messages [Bjorge, A. (2007). Power distance in English lingua franca email communication. "International Journal of Applied Linguistics", 17(1),…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Taguchi, Naoko; Chen, Ying; Qin, Yuqing – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study explored the relationship between metapragmatic knowledge and transfer of learning from one speech act to another. Using a digital application, 105 Chinese learners of English received implicit instruction on how to formulate a high-imposition request to someone in a higher social status and larger social distance. Immediately after the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Transfer of Training, Metalinguistics
Al Masaeed, Khaled – Applied Linguistics, 2022
The current study takes a bidialectal perspective for the conceptualization of pragmatic competence and its development through illuminating the need for the field to move forward and overcome the standard language ideology in research on L2 pragmatic competence. To this end, it brings bidialectal practices to the forefront to investigate L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Semitic Languages
Olga Molodchenko; Seok-Hoon You – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present study examines the influence of social distance and power factors on the use of internal and external mitigating devices and strategies in the production of requests by Korean learners of Russian. The data was collected by using a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) containing twelve situations that varied in the facts of power and social…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Distance
Elasfar, Mohammed Abulqasem Mohammed; Mustafa, Hema Rosheny Binti – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Much research has been done in the realization of apology and request speech act but very few have explored this in the context of Arabic language. We perform a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) process in this paper to gather and analyze studies to identify the diverse apology and request strategies preferred by Arabic learners of English and…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Qassim, Tabarek Ali; Abbas, Nawal Fadhel; Ahmed, Fatima Falih; Hameed, Sura – Arab World English Journal, 2021
In the framework of this study, the phenomenon of transfer is probed pragma-linguistically and socio-linguistically concerning marriage situations among Iraqi EFL learners. The study also strives to look at the refusal strategies most commonly employed by Iraqi female English as a foreign Language (EFL) learners compared to their counterparts,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Rockey, Catherine; Tiegs, Jessica; Fernández, Julieta – CALICO Journal, 2020
In response to calls for improving the quality of DCTs as data-gathering instruments, this study investigates the effectiveness of technology-enhanced discourse completion tasks (TE-DCTs) as a method for eliciting nonverbal speaker data. We used a mobile application to administer four TE-DCTs to native speakers (L1) and intermediate and advanced…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Task Analysis, Speech Acts
Khammari, Hassen – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present study investigated the production of the speech act of disagreement among Tunisian non-native students of English and American native speakers of English. Discourse completion test (DCT) was used to elicit disagreement strategies by the informants. Non-native informants produced a total of 376 acts and native informants produced 395…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bababayli, Isgandar; Kiziltan, Nalan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Different communities assess social distance, social power, rights and obligations, and degree of imposition used in specific speech acts differently. As a result of this difference, foreign language learners are likely to make sociopragmatic failure. This kind of failure is harder to correct because of the learners' justifiable sensitivity in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Social Distance, Power Structure, Speech Acts
Megaiab, Machalla; Wijana, I. Dewa Putu; Munandar, Aris – Online Submission, 2019
The objectives of this study are to find out Firstly, the politeness strategies of request used by Libyan students and their lecturers in the classroom. Secondly, the politeness strategies of request mostly used by Libyan students and their lecturers. Thirdly, the factors that influence the use of the strategies by Libyan students and their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Su, Yunwen; Ren, Wei – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
The present study explored the development of second language (L2) Chinese learners' ability to negotiate requests in interactions. It investigated the effect of proficiency on learners' use of request strategies and internal modifications and on their sequential realization of requests in L2 Chinese. Twenty-four American English learners of L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Pragmatics, Language Proficiency
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