| Autor: |
Dinç, Dilem, Yuvayapan, Fatma |
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Turkish Studies - Language & Literature; mar2024, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p417-428, 12p |
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Speakers may not convey things as they think they do, and hearers may interpret what is stated differently in different contexts. So, language in use may be the reflections of infinite examples of indirect or explicit employment depending on the conditions ofcontextdependent conversations. To be competent in a language, individuals need to handle culturally-biased indirectness in a conversation. Previous studies on indirectness are limited to cross-cultural issues. The influence of the second language (L2) on the indirectness strategies in the first language (L1) has received scant attention in the research literature. Therefore, this study examines whether L2 may affect the indirectness strategies in L1. The participants were undergraduate students from three different state universities in Türkiye. The data were collected using the conversational indirectness scale proposed by Holtgraves (1997). It was found that there was a statistical difference between Turkish undergraduate students studying at Turkish major departments and Turkish undergraduate students studying at English major departments regarding the interpretation strategies of indirectness in Turkish which may be due to the influence of L2 cultural norms on L1 norms. Neither group of students differed significantly in the production strategies of indirectness. They probably developed an interdependent self-construal because of the indirectness norms of Turkish society. The correlation between the interpretation and production strategies of indirectness was small in the scores of Turkish undergraduate students studying at Turkish major departments, but it was higher in the scores of Turkish undergraduate students studying at English major departments, which might be an indication of the influence of L2 to L1 norms if indirectness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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