scholarly journals Thanksgiving speech act by South and North Koreans - A comparative analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol null (43) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Hyun Jung Koo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Speech Act

scholarly journals Admirative Category with an Assessment of Possibility and Motivation in Russian and Persian Interrogative Sentences

2022 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1103
Author(s):  
T. Kh. Kahnamouei ◽  
A. A. Hosseini
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information

In Russian and Persian, the category of indirect evidentiality points out to some unreliable source of information. The category of admirativity expresses unexpected and new information gained by the speaker. Such interrogative sentences convey combine admirativity with diff erent modal meanings. Foreign students of Russian often fi nd it hard to distinguish these meanings in Russian interrogative sentences. The authors compared Russian and Persian interrogative sentences and the linguistics tools that refl ect the admirative category with an assessment of modal meanings of possibility and motivation. This is the fi rst research of the category of admirativity in the Persian language and the fi rst publication on the comparison of Russian and Persian interrogative sentences, as well as on the relationship between admirativity and modal meanings in Russian and Persian interrogative sentences. The research objective was to perform a comparative analysis of admirativity in Russian and Persian interrogative sentences and to study the situations in which this meaning conveys the surprise of the speaker from the availability or lack of possibility to perform a certain action. In both languages, admirativity can accompany the feeling of motivation in the subject of the speech act. The findings can be useful in teaching Russian as a foreign language.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Persuasive Strategies in English Social and Commercial Advertisements

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-625
Author(s):  
Somayyeh Motallebi ◽  
Davud Kuhi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cooperative Principle ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Pragmatic Strategies ◽  
Cooperative Principles

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the difference between 35 social and 35 commercial ads that gathered through the internet. Socio-pragmatic strategies that used in ads including Grice (1975) cooperative principle (CP), Leech (1983) politeness principle (PP) and Searle (1970) speech act to persuade persuadees. The findings revealed that cooperative principles are mostly observed in both kinds of advertisement. And there was significant difference in social and commercial ads. This paper indicates that cooperative principles appear to be the more powerful constraints in advertising discourse than politeness principles. As well politeness principles are to be applied in commercial ads significantly more than in social ads. Speech acts are similarly observed in social and commercial ads and they are almost never violated.

scholarly journals Indexical and Sequential Properties of Criticisms in Initial Interactions: Implications for Examining (Im) Politeness across Cultures

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 904-929
Author(s):  
Michael Haugh ◽  
Wei-Lin Melody Chang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

Cross-cultural studies of (im)politeness have tended to focus on identifying differences in linguistic behaviour by which speech acts are delivered, which are then explained as motivated by underlying cultural differences. In this paper, we argue that this approach unnecessarily backgrounds emic or cultural members’ understandings of (im)politeness. Through a comparative analysis of criticisms in initial interactions amongst Taiwanese speakers of Mandarin Chinese and amongst Australian speakers of English, we draw attention to the way in which similarities in the locally situated ways in which criticisms are delivered and responded to (i.e. their sequential properties) can mask differences in the culturally relevant meanings of criticisms (i.e. their indexical properties) in the respective languages. We conclude that cross-cultural studies of (im)politeness should not only focus on differences in the forms or strategies by which speech acts are accomplished, but remain alert to the possibility that what is ostensibly the same speech act, may in fact be interpreted in different ways by members of different cultural groups.

scholarly journals ANALISIS TUTURAN DIREKTIF DAN NILAI BUDAYA PADA BUKU AL’ARABIYAH BAYNA YADAYKA

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Tatang Tatang ◽  
Syihabuddin Syihabuddin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Directive Speech ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Descriptive Method

This article examines the types of directive speech act in the book Al’arabiyah Bayna Yadayka, and its values of Arabic culture. This study was motivated by the lack of students’ understanding of Arabic culture, whereas they are prospecting to be Arabic teachers. To examine this issue we used a descriptive method with critical discourse analysis, comparative analysis, and pragmatic analysis which is based on Grice’s and Leech’s theories. The data analysis found that in the Al’Arabiyyah Yadayka Baina there are 93 types of questions using directive speech, 8 of solicitation, 9 of petition, 9 of offers, 2 of rejection, and 1 of prohibition.  The directive speech contains the traditions and values of Arab and Islamic cultures, i.e the Arabic speech system which is directive, assertive, and straightforward, the use of insya Allah phrase, the holiday traditions, the worships, the tradition of similar speech opponents, the factual topics, and the topics in the Islamic laws. This tradition constitutes the principle of cooperation and politeness. This Arabic communication and the Islamic values must be taught to the Arabic students to improve their multicultural competence and the Islamic values.

scholarly journals A Descriptive-Comparative Analysis of Apology Strategies: The case of Iranian EFL and Malaysian ESL University Students

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atieh Farashaiyan ◽  
Seyed Amirkhiz
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Esl Learners ◽  
Malaysian Students

This paper reports on a study that was carried out to describe and compare the apology strategies utilized by Iranian EFL and Malaysian ESL learners in confronting identical apology situations. For this purpose, data were elicited from 15 Iranian and 15 Malaysian students through a Discourse completion tasks questionnaire. The participants were of the same language proficiency. Results of the study showed certain similarities and differences in terms of frequency and typology of strategies used by Iranian and Malaysian students. The findings of this study might be of pedagogical help and significance to teachers, students and those interested in pragmatics in general and apology speech act in particular.

scholarly journals Politeness Strategies in English and Armenian

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2 (9)) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Gohar Hovsepyan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The article attempts to carry out a comparative analysis of politeness strategies in English and Armenian based on the factor of directness and indirectness. The connection between indirect expression and politeness have been widely discussed among linguists and pragmatists (see Brown and Levinson 1987; Lakoff 1973; Leech 1983; Searle 1976). Many of the scholars having underlined the close connection between the concepts mentioned, note that a higher degree of indirectness presupposes more politeness. Speech act of request has been chosen as the material of the research. The investigation has revealed a number of similarities and differences in the application of politeness strategies of expressing request in both languages. In particular, the two languages use the same three basic strategies of request – direct, conventional and indirect and unconventional indirect. Conventional Indirect strategy especially in patterns made up with interrogative sentences prevail both in Armenian and in English. However, along with the similarities in the strategies of the two languages, many differences have been observed in their forms of expression – in the structures and patterns.

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