Request Strategies: a Comparative Study in Mandarin Chinese and Korean. Yong-Ju Rue and Grace Qiao Zhang (2008) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 320 ISBN 978 90 272 54214

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ren
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Request Strategies

scholarly journals Speech Acts across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Pakistani Students’ Request and Politeness Strategies

sjesr ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Amina Shahzadi ◽  
Abdul Ghaffar Bhatti ◽  
Munir Khan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
Esl Learners

The examines are the different request strategies in English used by Pakistani and Chinese students according to social distance and power of interlocutors. Data comprises students from Pakistan and China enrolled in an undergraduate program at International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper's (1989) taxonomy of request strategies is taken as a theoretical framework to compare the request speech act patterns of Pakistani and Chinese students. This study analyzed the request speech act in terms of head act strategies used by participants. Blum-Kulka et al. (1989) categorized the request speech act into three request strategies i.e. direct, conventionally indirect, and non-conventional indirect strategies. The study identifies similarities between Pakistani ESL learners and Chinese EFL learners in making use of mood derivable as the preferred strategies for making requests in situations of different social distance, power, and familiarity between the interlocutors.

The verb of giving in Thai and Mandarin Chinese as a case of polysemy: A comparative study

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 621-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingkarn Thepkanjana ◽  
Satoshi Uehara
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mandarin Chinese

A comparative study of how and why in Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-284
Author(s):  
Seng-Hian Lau ◽  
Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Single Element ◽  
Southern Min ◽  
Simple Product

Abstract From looking into the same and different properties of how and why between Taiwan Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese, this paper aims to explain the post-verbal how construction with negative speaker attitude. Based on our observations and findings of the specific usages of sī and leh, we propose an analysis for the construction in question. According to our analysis, this construction is not a simple product of a single element, but a composition of sī and leh, which together generate the negative speaker attitude, and the verb with a post-verbal how, which produce a causal how reading.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Request Speech Acts in Badrudi, Persian, and English

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Somayyeh Daneshpazhuh ◽  
Mohsen Shahrokhi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Statistical Procedure ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Contextual Variables ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies

<p>This study was an attempt to delve into how requestive speech acts were realized in English, Persian, and Badrudi by EFL Persian students at the upper-intermediate level who spoke Badrudi as well. To collect the required data three versions of a Discourse Completion Test in English, Persian and Badrudi were administered to the research sample (N=40). The collected data was codified and analyzed with regard to social power and distance as two contextual variables and further statistical procedure was run to sustain or reject the research hypotheses. The analysis of the data revealed that the presence of power in interactions influences the request realization by the participants as there were differences among the most frequent strategies in English, Persian, and Badrudi. Moreover, with respect to the presence of social distance the comparison among request strategies in English, Persian, and Badrudi indicated the participants opt for different strategies as the most frequent strategies. The results also revealed that with the presence of power and distance direct strategies were the most frequent ones, conventionally indirect ranked second and indirect strategies were used as the least frequent strategies in English, Persian, and Badrudi.</p>

scholarly journals Encoding present situations in Mandarin Chinese and isiXhosa: A comparative study

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (0) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiujie Ma ◽  
Silvester Ron Simango
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Mandarin Chinese
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