| Autor: |
Alfattah, Mohammed Hasan Ahmed, Ravindranath, B. K. |
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Language in India; Jun2009, Vol. 9 Issue 6, p3-3, 1p |
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This paper investigates the ways in which Yemeni Arabic speakers realize requests with special reference to politeness strategies as patterned by Blum-Kulka (1989). It provides a pragmatic analysis of the strategies of requests and politeness phenomenon in the production of request speech act by Yemeni Arabic speakers. It attempts to explore and identify the nature of politeness strategies in Yemeni Arabic focusing on the request speech act as a measuring tool in the light of Brown and Levinson's theory. It also attempts to systemize the various strategies used for the purpose of requesting from the pragmatic point of view. The paper also sheds light on the sociocultural attitudes and values of the Yemeni community. The paper is based on the analysis of the elicited responses of 330 Yemeni Arab subjects. The data was collected by serving them a written questionnaire based on Blum-Kulka (1982) with some modifications. The questionnaire was obtained with 1320 speech acts of request. Each of the valid responses was analyzed separately to identify the type of strategy used. The study is of a descriptive nature. Frequencies, percentages and the means of these percentages are considered. The main aim is to find out the politeness strategies used and the frequency of their usage. The prime findings of the study reveal that Yemeni Arab speakers intend to use the conventional direct strategies with constant tendency to use mood derivable request strategy with politeness markers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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