A Comparative Study of Refusal Strategies Used by Iranians and Australians

Abarghoui, Masoud Azizi

doi:10.4304/tpls.2.11.2439-2445

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“…Additionally, not so many similarities were found between the refusal strategies of Iranian and Australian participants. The reason for these important findings, in Abarghoui's (2012) terms, was maybe because there were not so many chances for Iranians to speak English outside the school and they were not explicitly taught refusal strategies in EFL classes.…”

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Refusal strategies of Turkish pre-service teachers of English: A focus on gender and status of interlocutor

Tuncer

Turhan²

2019

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In today's world, the great demand for using English entails language users to be pragmatically competent so that they could adapt themselves to differing requirements of various contexts. Within those contexts, some factors such as the culture of the target language, the speech act used in the interaction, status and gender of the interlocutors are accepted as essential components. Refusals, one of the most difficult speech acts to perform based on their face threatening nature, were chosen as the main concern of the present study. In an attempt to find out what kind of refusal strategies are employed by Turkish pre-service teachers of English, 27 first year students (14 males and 13 females) at Çukurova University were randomly chosen. Data for the study were collected via a Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) in which the participants were to respond nine scenarios (three lower, three equal and three higher interlocutors). Data analysis concentrated on two main variables: gender of the participants and the status of the interlocutors. In addition to those, refusal combinations utilized by the participants was another focal point of the study. The whole qualitative data were discussed through descriptive statistics and chi-square analyses, and "excuse, reason, explanation" was found to be the most frequent refusal strategy used by the participants. Another important finding is that males were found to prefer directly uttering "no" more frequently than females. It was also found that the number of the strategy combinations increases as the status of the interlocutor rises.

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Refusal strategies of Turkish pre-service teachers of English: A focus on gender and status of interlocutor

Tuncer

Turhan²

2019

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“…There have been studies conducted to investigate the acts of refusal in certain languages. Al-Mahrooqi and Al-Aghbari (2016) investigated the refusal strategies among Omani EFL students, Abarghoui (2012) who analyzed a comparison of refusal strategies used by Iranians and Australians and Guo (2012) who explored a comparison of refusal strategies used by Chinese and American. With regard to studies refusal in Indonesia, Aziz (2000 as cited in Muniroh, 2013) observed that the study of refusal is based on the trend of Indonesians who do not speak openly, preferring to express their feeling, thoughts and ideas indirectly which is confirmed by others such as Septiany (2013) ;Chojimah, (2015); Nurweni, Sudirman and Mahpul, (2016).…”

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“…According to Holmes and Lakoff (1995), gender and speech acts are interwoven to each other (as cited in Hedayatnejad & Rahbar 2014). Similarly, Abarghoui (2012) claims that gender and speech behavior are interrelated variables.…”

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Refusal Strategies Among Sundanese Students: An Analysis of Gender and Power Relation

Solihah¹,

Imperiani²

2020

Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)

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This study aims to investigate the contribution of power relations to the realization of refusal strategies done by Sundanese male and female students. This study employs a descriptive qualitative approach. The data used in the present study were gathered from a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) that was distributed to 4 male and 4 female respondents. The data were analyzed by using Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Welts's (1990) classifications of refusal. The findings show that there is no substantial difference in terms of the strategies employed by both genders. It is also found that power relation influences the realization of refusal. This finding suggests that when the respondents refuse someone who is more powerful, they tend to prioritize the emotional feeling of the requester. Meanwhile, when the respondents refuse someone who is more powerless, they tend to prioritize things by using their logic

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“…Olshtain & Weinbach, 1993), apologies (e.g. Intachchakra, 2004, requests (Kasanga, 2006;Hill, Ide, Ikuta, Kawasake & Ogino, 1986), requests and apologies (Achiba, 2003;Marquez-Reiter, 2000;Blum-Kulka & Olshtain, 1986), and refusals (Nikmehr & Jaherdi, 2014;Sattar & Farnia, 2014;Abarghoui, 2012, Al-Shboul, Marlyna Maros & Mohamad Subakir, 2012Sattar, Salasiah Che Lah & Raja Rozina, 2011;Kahtani, 2008;Al Eryani, 2007;Nguyen, 2006;Al Khatib, 2006;Felix-Brasdefer, 2004a& 2004bLauper, 1997;Chen, 1996;Ramos, 1991). Among the aspects focused in these studies are linguistics manifestations and underlying politeness strategies of learners, patterns of speech acts produced the learners, pragmatics transfer i.e.…”

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“…Review of the literature has also shown that most of the studies which compare realization of speech acts of participants from different cultural background employed Discourse Completion Test (DCT) (Nikmehr & Jaherdi, 2014;Mohammad & Hatam, 2014;Abarghoui, 2012;Al-Kahtani, 2008;Al Eryani, 2007;Nguyen, 2006;Al Khatib, 2006;Hill, 1997;Lauper, 1997;Chen, 1996;Trosborg 1995;Takahashi & Beebe, 1987;BlumKulka & Olshtain, 1986) to elicit data. Many of the local studies also employed DCT to elicit responses (Farahnaz & Asma, 2014;Sattar & Farnia, 2014;Al-Shboul et al, 2012;Youssef, 2012;Sattar et al, 2011;Farnia, Buchheit & Shahida, 2010;Maros, 2006).…”

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Refusal Strategies Used by Malay Esl Studentsand English Native Speakers to Refuse a Request

Saad

Bidin

Shabdin

2016

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ABSTRACT:The present study investigates similarities and differences of a speech act of refusal in English as realized by Malay Speakers of English (MSE) and Native Speakers of English (NSE). The study examined the types and also the contents of the strategies used by the two groups when refusing a request made by a higher status interlocutor. An Enhanced Open Role-play was utilized to obtain data on the types and content of refusal strategies. Participants of the study comprised 12 MSE undergraduate students from a local university and 12 NSE who were IGSCE and Diploma Baccalaureate students from an international school who had refused to the higher status interlocutor's request. Qualitative data analytic methods were used to analyse the data which were classified into semantic refusal strategies and politeness strategies. Brown's and Levinson's politeness theory, Hofstede's cultural dimensions and Hall's high-and low-context cultures were used to guide the study. The findings revealed that the two groups shared many similarities in terms of types and contents of the strategies when refusing to the higher status interlocutor's requests. Nevertheless, the NSE demonstrated a higher use of direct strategies and the content of their indirect strategies and adjuncts to refusal strategies reflect the western individualistic values. The MSEs,' on the other hand exhibited the eastern values which prioritize group's importance. These findings provide further insights on the complexities of refusal interaction and the patterns could be used by English language teachers as pragmatic input to develop English as a Second Language students' ability to use socially appropriate language for the situation they encounter.

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A Comparative Study of Refusal Strategies Used by Iranians and Australians

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Refusal strategies of Turkish pre-service teachers of English: A focus on gender and status of interlocutor

Refusal strategies of Turkish pre-service teachers of English: A focus on gender and status of interlocutor

Refusal Strategies Among Sundanese Students: An Analysis of Gender and Power Relation

Refusal Strategies Used by Malay Esl Studentsand English Native Speakers to Refuse a Request

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