An Interlanguage Pragmatic Study on Chinese EFL Learners’ Refusal: Perception and Performance

Lin, Ming-Fang

doi:10.4304/jltr.5.3.642-653

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“…As was observed to be the case with the suggestion scenarios, males and females favoured direct and explicit strategies more than any other category when refusing. These findings are contrary to those of Lin (2014), whose Chinese EFL and American NSE participants tended to use direct strategies least when refusing.…”

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Suggestion and Refusal Strategies in English by Kurdish Undergraduate Students

Alzeebaree¹,

Yavuz²

2018

IJEL

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This paper investigated the sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic competence of Kurdish EFL undergraduate students through the speech acts of suggestion and refusal. Eighty-three Kurdish EFL undergraduate students and 14 native speakers of English participated in the study. Data were elicited using a Discourse Completion Task consisting of three suggestive and three refusal situations, and the responses were rated on a scale developed by the researcher. The response data for suggestions and refusals were coded according to the taxonomies of Martinez-Flor (2005) and Beebe et al. (1990), respectively. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 22. Four researchers rated the Kurdish EFL undergraduate students' responses in terms of appropriate pragmatic and linguistic forms. The results of the study revealed differences in the overall strategies and strategy patterns between the responses of Kurdish EFL undergraduate students and Native speakers of English groups, as well as differences between students of state and private universities.

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Suggestion and Refusal Strategies in English by Kurdish Undergraduate Students

Alzeebaree¹,

Yavuz²

2018

IJEL

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“…The number of studies with relevant data is quite limited. Most of the studies either combine all the semantic formulas (Keshavarz, Eslami & Ghahreman 2006;Hosseini & Talebinezhad 2014;Izadi & Zilaie 2014;Lin 2014) or do not categorize the data based on the situation of an invitation with the appropriate variable of social status (Chen, Ye & Zhang 1995;Liao & Bresnahan 1996;Beckers 1999;Chang 2009;Sahragard & Javanmardi 2011;Ghazanfari, Bonyadi & Malekzadeh 2013;Farashaiyanl & Muthusamy 2017). Given these reasons, the studies for this research are carefully selected, considering their relevance and representativeness.…”

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Emergence of Marked Semantic Formulas in Refusal Strategy Hierarchies

Lyuh¹,

Tak²

2018

J. Univers. Lang.

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“…) or the comparative studies which compare the production of this speech act by the speakers of different languages (Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz, 1990;Lin, 2014;Tsuiki Moaveni, 2014;Kwon, 2004;Kazemi Gol, 2013;etc. ).…”

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“…In his study, Lin (2014) examined the cross-cultural differences between Chinese and English refusals, and how Chinese EFL learners perceive and perform the speech act of IJALEL 6(7): [180][181][182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191] refusal. The data were collected from 30 native speakers of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan (NSC), 30 Chinese EFL learners in Taiwan (EFL), and 30 native speakers of American English in America (NSE).…”

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An Investigation of the Use of politeness strategies in refusal among Characters with different power relations in English and Farsi Novels

Farrokhi

Arghami

2017

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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One of the important concerns of communicative way of learning is to be able to convey meaning and not just physical words in a language. The study of speech acts could possibly help achieve this. When using speech acts, one should take into consideration the conversational rules of the language and in order to establish a safe and harmonious conversation, it is better to use certain strategies to eliminate their possible threatening effects. Attempt is made in the present study using a mixed-method design, to investigate the employment of politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), among the interlocutors with different power relations in English and Farsi novels, when using the speech act of refusal. The speech act of refusal addressed in this study is a face threatening act (FTA) (Brown & Levinson, 1987), which may be used differently by speakers of different languages, with different power relations, in different situations. The materials used are five English and five Farsi novels written by native speakers of English and Farsi. The taxonomy of Beebe, Takahashi and Uliss-Weltz (1990) were employed in order to categories different types of refusal. The frequency of their use and their percentages were calculated manually. The results indicated that even though reflecting two different cultures, the similarities among the English and Farsi novels regarding the use of both speech acts, were more than the differences. The differences were more obvious in the employment of politeness strategies. The findings of this study will probably give insights into the pragmatic and conversational rules of both languages.

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An Interlanguage Pragmatic Study on Chinese EFL Learners’ Refusal: Perception and Performance

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Suggestion and Refusal Strategies in English by Kurdish Undergraduate Students

Suggestion and Refusal Strategies in English by Kurdish Undergraduate Students

Emergence of Marked Semantic Formulas in Refusal Strategy Hierarchies

An Investigation of the Use of politeness strategies in refusal among Characters with different power relations in English and Farsi Novels

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