scholarly journals A cross-cultural pragmatic study of the speech act of complaining by native Thai and Chinese speakers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Yang ◽  
Anchalee Wannaruk
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Pragmatic Study

scholarly journals “Please Don’t Come Back”: A Pragmatic Study of Chinese Netizens’ Complaints Under Pandemic of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Xin Xie ◽  
Yaqi Liu ◽  
Deeana Kasa
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
Short Video ◽  
Felicity Condition ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This article aims to analyze Chinese netizens’ speech act of complaints under pandemic of COVID-19 by Searl’s felicity condition of speech act (1969) and discuss with politeness theories. Researchers collected data from the comment area of a short video on Douyin in September 2021. The result shows that there are 11 strategies employed to complain about the returnees, namely Suggestion, Statement, Order, Irony, Expectation, Expressing negative emotions, Request, Criticism, Asking for reasons, Calling for empathy, and Exclaiming strategies according to the order of most to least. In uneasy situations, Chinese speakers still try to employ polite strategies to express their dissatisfaction, however, they may threaten listeners’ “face” inevitably.

scholarly journals The Pragmatic Study of Speech Act Analysis in Discussion Activities on Speaking Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Widiastuti Muchsin
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Act Analysis ◽  
Perlocutionary Act ◽  
Pragmatic Study ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The research problems of this research is what are the types and functions of speech acts that appear in discussion activities on speaking learning of 3rd semester students of Polytechnic ATI Makassar. The methods in this research is a descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is the 3rd semester Politechnic ATI Makassar students in class discussion activities. The results of the study can be described as follows. There are several types of speech acts found. Based on the action objectives of the speaker's perspective, Locutionary act, Illocution act, and perlocutionary act are found. Locutionary speech acts include news, questions and orders. Illocutionary speech acts include assertive, directive, expressive, commissive and declarative illocution

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Literary Translation Teaching in Course of “Home Reading”

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01123
Author(s):  
Julia Privalova ◽  
Victoria Ovcharenko ◽  
Natalia Kashirina ◽  
Alexey Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Stage Structure ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Cultural Mediation ◽  
Home Reading ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
Cultural Component

The paper concerns teaching literary translation as a type of cross-cultural speech act in the system of translators’ professional training and integrated into the course of “Home Reading”.The authors believe that all disciplines that comprise translators’ professional training should be profession-oriented, equipping the students with skills and competences necessary for effective cross-cultural mediation, thus contributing to the formation of a cross-cultural component of the translator’s competence. A hierarchy of tasks and assignments is presented in accordance with the three-stage structure of the translation process (pre-translation, translation, and post-translation stages).The results and efficiency of the proposed method, tested in the course of a 17-years long experimental teaching, is described.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Approach to Speech-Act-Sets: The Case of Apologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvie Válková
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Corpus Data

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to contribute to the validity of recent research into speech act theory by advocating the idea that with some of the traditional speech acts, their overt language manifestations that emerge from corpus data remind us of ritualised scenarios of speech-act-sets rather than single acts, with configurations of core and peripheral units reflecting the socio-cultural norms of the expectations and culture-bound values of a given language community. One of the prototypical manifestations of speech-act-sets, apologies, will be discussed to demonstrate a procedure which can be used to identify, analyse, describe and cross-culturally compare the validity of speech-act-set theory and provide evidence of its relevance for studying the English-Czech interface in this particular domain of human interaction.

scholarly journals Request Strategies in Everyday Interactions of Persian and English Speakers

SAGE Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401667947
Author(s):  
Shiler Yazdanfar ◽  
Alireza Bonyadi
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
American English ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Daily Interactions ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
American English Speakers

Cross-cultural studies of speech acts in different linguistic contexts might have interesting implications for language researchers and practitioners. Drawing on the Speech Act Theory, the present study aimed at conducting a comparative study of request speech act in Persian and English. Specifically, the study endeavored to explore the request strategies used in daily interactions of Persian and English speakers based on directness level and supportive moves. To this end, English and Persian TV series were observed and requestive utterances were transcribed. The utterances were then categorized based on Blum-Kulka and Olshtain’s Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Pattern (CCSARP) for directness level and internal and external mitigation devises. According to the results, although speakers of both languages opted for the direct level as their most frequently used strategy in their daily interactions, the English speakers used more conventionally indirect strategies than the Persian speakers did, and the Persian speakers used more non-conventionally indirect strategies than the English speakers did. Furthermore, the analyzed data revealed the fact that American English speakers use more mitigation devices in their daily interactions with friends and family members than Persian speakers.

scholarly journals Disagreeing in Tunisian Arabic: a Politeness and Pragmatic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Hassen Khammari
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Tunisian Arabic ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Identification And Quantification ◽  
Pragmatic Study

This research is a pragmatic and politeness study that deals with the speech act of disagreement in Tunisian Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Tunisia. It accounts for disagreement in relation to the contextual factors of Social Distance, Social Power, and Rank of Imposition. Discourse Completion Test (DCT) is used to study the production of disagreement. Data was collected from a group of native speakers of Tunisian Arabic at “Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, Tunisia”. Native speakers of TA used a variety of strategies, which were identified in other languages (e.g., Direct Refusal, Suggestion, Giving Account, and Request…) along with new strategies (e.g., Teasing, Unsympathetic advice, Challenge, and Criticism).The identification and quantification of the strategies of disagreement also helped develop insights into the Tunisian culture.  

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