A Comparative Study on Speech Acts: Formal Complaints by Native Speakers and Turkish Learners of English
| Autor: | Okan Önalan, Abdulvahit Çakır |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:Language and Literature
Linguistics and Language Social Psychology Turkish Speech acts formal complaints directness-indirectness pragmatic competence discourse evaluation task (DET) Language and Linguistics Education Task (project management) lcsh:P1-1091 Complaint Speech acts formal complaints directness-indirectness pragmatic competence discourse evaluation task (DET) 060201 languages & linguistics Data collection Item analysis 05 social sciences Significant difference 050301 education 06 humanities and the arts Pragmatics language.human_language Linguistics lcsh:Philology. Linguistics 0602 languages and literature Task analysis language lcsh:P Psychology 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Volume: 4, Issue: 2 239-259 Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 239-259 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2149-1135 |
| Popis: | The aim of this study is to investigate the pragmatic language behavior of Turkish learners of English in formal complaint situations through the comparison of their speech act performances to those of native speakers. The data was collected from a total of 276 participants, 132 Native Speakers (NSs) and 144 Turkish Learners (TLs) of English. Three different data collection methods were used: a) Discourse Evaluation Task (DET); b) video-recorded role plays; and c) open-ended oral interviews. The results indicate that native English speakers' and Turkish learners' production of complaints reflects a significant difference with respect to the linguistic components and the pragmatic choices made in complaining A significant contribution of the current study to the literature is the Discourse Evaluation Task (DET), which is both a data collection tool and a term used for the first time in this paper. (C) 2018 EJAL & the Authors. Published by Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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