scholarly journals A Cross-cultural Study of The Speech Act of Compliments in American English and Yemeni Arabic

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Najeeb Taher Almansoob ◽  
Yasser Alrefaee ◽  
K.S Patil
Keyword(s):  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
American English ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Frequency Counts

Based on a cross-cultural perspective, the current study aims to compare the realization of the speech act of compliments among Yemeni Arabic native speakers (YANSs) and American English native speakers (AENSs). Samples of 30 participants of Americans and 30 other participants of Yemenis were involved in the study. The data were collected through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) consisting of six hypothetical compliment scenarios. The corpus collected for analysis was 380 Arabic compliment semantic formulas and 338 English compliment semantic formulas. Data were analyzed in terms of frequency counts of 20 strategies and order of semantic formulas in the speakers' response utterances. The findings showed that there are some pragmatic similarities and differences between the two native groups. Some strategies seemed to be universal across the two cultures like Admiration whereas strategies of Exaggeration, Gratitude to God and Metaphor are culturally specific to Arabic. The findings also revealed that most of the speakers' utterances were in the two-fold order of semantic formulas. Moreover, the findings showed that American compliments were steady and formulaic in nature while Arabic Compliments were various in formulas and long.

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 Strategies and mitigation devices in the speech act of disagreement in American English

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Hassen Khammari
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
American English ◽  
Strategy Selection ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Native Speakers Of English

The present study aimed at exploring the strategies of disagreement and hedging devices used by native speakers of English. The study elicited the informants’ reactions when disagreeing with higher, equal, and lower status. The responses were analyzed using Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model and Hyland’s (1998) hedging taxonomy. Discourse completion test data was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed that native speakers of American English used positive politeness strategies considerably with higher and equal status interlocutors (father, teacher, and friends). The respondents were concerned with saving their interlocutors’ positive face regardless of their social distance and power. The only significant difference, in terms of strategy selection, was identified in highly face-threatening contexts (accusation), where the informants opted for bald on record politeness strategies because of the seriousness of the interlocutor’s (supervisor) claims (plagiarism). The data showed also that native speakers relied on hedges considerably to mitigate their disagreements.

scholarly journals Polite Requests of Indonesian Learners of FLE and French Native Speakers: An Interlanguage Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-226
Author(s):  
Elvi Syahrin ◽  
Tengku Silvana Sinar ◽  
Eddy Setia ◽  
Nurlela Nurlela
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationship ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Baseline Data ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
The Cross

This study anchored in the field of Interlanguage Pragmatic (ILP). The approach taken is speech act based. The investigation focuses on realization of polite requests produced by Indonesian learners of Français langue étrangère (FLE) (henceforth abbreviated as ILF) and native speakers of French (henceforth abbreviated as NSF). The model used for the investigation is the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP) model formulated by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989), modified by Warga (2005) and Bae (2012). The model applied to the analysis of the data is based on three politeness systems of social relationship between speaker and addressee proposed by Scollon and Scollon (2001). Data was be collected by using Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT). Six out of twelve request situations formulated by Reiter (2000) categorized into each politeness system were selected to be analyzed. The WDCT were tested to 20 ILF; 1 learner of Universitas Negeri Medan and 19 learners of Universitas Negeri Jakarta. The 20 participants are those who are certified of Diplôme d'études en langue française (DELF) of B2 level (advanced level). As the baseline data of the study, the e-mailed data of 20 NSF were also collected. The study found that there is a preference of Indonesian learners of FLE and native speaker of French to use Conventional Indirect strategy in their requests. This strategy, even realized in slightly different number of use, was highly used and considered to be the most polite request by the two groups.

Observations of the U.S. Principalship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective from a Kenyan Headmaster

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-120
Author(s):  
J. Malilo Barasa ◽  
Crystal J. Gips ◽  
Richard J. Hazler
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Strategies For Change ◽  
The U.S

This paper arises from a Kenyan headmaster's personal observations of U.S. principals. As a case study, it provides an analysis of U.S. educational leadership by comparing the roles of U.S. principals and Kenyan headmasters. Similarities and differences in roles are noted as they emerge from the values of the two cultures. The impacts of the different approaches to school leadership are considered, especially as they allow for insights into potential alterations in the practices of U.S. principals. The paper concludes with a series of recommended strategies for change in school leadership, which answer the needs identified in the current literature on educational reform.

Universals and Specificities in the Structure and Development of Quantitative-relational Thought: A Cross-cultural Study in Greece and India

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-290
Author(s):  
Andreas Demetriou ◽  
Avinash Pachaury ◽  
Yiota Metallidou ◽  
Smaragda Kazi
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Algebraic Reasoning ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Two Cultures

This study investigates the structure and development of quantitative thought in Greece and India. A total of 297 Indian subjects and 269 Greek subjects, aged from 10 to 16 years, were examined by a battery addressing their ability to execute arithmetic operations, a battery addressing their proportional reasoning, and a battery addressing algebraic reasoning. The items in each battery addressed four developmental levels. Confirmatory factor analysis showed, as predicted, that the same model is able to account for the performance of both cultures. Some differences were observed in the relative strength of the various abilities. However, the developmental inter-patterning of abilities was generally the same in the two cultures. There were no differences in capacity-dependent sequences but there were some differences in strategy-dependent sequences. These findings are discussed in the context of our theory of cognitive development.

scholarly journals “Apology Accepted”: A Cross-Cultural Study of Responses to Apologies by Native Speakers of English and Chinese

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jue Wu ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Native Speakers Of English

<p>This study focuses on the strategies of responding to apologies from a cross-cultural perspective. It analyzes and compares apology response (AR) strategies adopted by three groups of English native speakers (ENS), Chinese native speakers (ENS) and Chinese EFL learners for potential cross-cultural differences. Results indicate that all three groups most favor the strategy of Indirect Acceptance to show politeness when responding to apologies. Given contextual factors such as social power, social distance and severity of offence, the three groups display different patterns of AR strategies. Chinese EFL learners’ AR strategies are similar to those of Chinese native speakers, indicating the influence of native culture on their pragmatic competence.</p>

scholarly journals An Analysis of Mitigating Devices of Request Used by Saudi EFL Learners

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Fadi Al Khasawneh
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Request Strategies ◽  
English Program

This study aimed at exploring the linguistic mitigating devices of requests used by Saudi EFL learners. The participants of this study were 97 students enrolled in the English program at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The data of this study were collected by Discourse Completion Test (DCT) questionnaire designed for the purpose of this study. The questionnaire contained five different situations of request and the factor of Social Distance (SD) was incorporated to investigate any differences of the learners’ request strategies attributed to this factor. The data were classified according to the Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) by Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984). The findings of this study revealed that the participants preferred to use internal mitigating devices more frequently than external ones. They also were more direct when making requests and it seems that social distance does not play a significant role in the students’ modification strategies of requests.

COPING WITH LONELINESS IN ADOLESCENCE: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ami Rokach ◽  
FéLix Neto
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Support Network ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Increased Activity

The present study examined the influence of cultural background on adolescents' ability to cope with loneliness. Three hundred and six adolescents (13–18 yrs. old) from Canada and Portugal answered an 86 item questionnaire which examined the beneficial strategies which they used to cope with loneliness. The strategies which were examined included Acceptance and reflection, Self development and understanding, Social support network, Distancing and denial, Religion and faith and Increased activity. Results revealed that adolescents of the two cultures differed on three subscales. Gender differences between, and within, cultures were also examined.

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