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Wijayanto, Agus – Online Submission, 2019
Refusing is a common speech act; nonetheless people from different cultural backgrounds employ different refusal strategies. The present study compares refusal strategies used between native speakers of Javanese in Indonesia and native speakers of British English in the United Kingdom. Empirical data were elicited by means of discourse completion…
Descriptors: Semantics, Contrastive Linguistics, Native Speakers, Indonesian Languages
Wijayanto, Agus; Prasetyarini, Aryati; Hikmat, Mauly Halwat – Online Submission, 2017
A growing body of literature has investigated impoliteness in many domains. Nevertheless, little research has examined impoliteness done by foreign language learners. Impoliteness used in interlanguage complaints by English as a foreign language learners was observed. The effects of interlocutors' different status levels and social distance on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Negative Attitudes
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Wijayanto, Agus; Prasetyarini, Aryati; Hikmat, Mauly Halwat – SAGE Open, 2017
A growing body of literature has investigated impoliteness in many domains. Nevertheless, little research has examined impoliteness done by foreign language learners. Impoliteness used in interlanguage complaints by English as a foreign language learners was observed. The effects of interlocutors' different status levels and social distance on the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Wijayanto, Agus – Online Submission, 2013
This paper investigated refusal strategies conducted by British native speakers of English (NSE) and Javanese learners of English (JLE). The data were elicited through discourse completion tasks (DCT) from 20 NSE and 50 JLE. Refusal strategies in Javanese were elicited from 35 native speakers of Javanese (NJ) to provide a baseline for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics