Analyzing the Speech Act of Disagreement Produced by Iraqi Efl Learners: A Gender Study

Sharqawi, Mushtaq A.; Anthony, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.18510/hssr.2019.7213

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“…This means that learners should attain certain politeness strategies when using suggestions. Examples of gender variations in studies dealing with face-threatening acts are frequent such as refusals by Abed (2011) and Arani & Tehrani (2013), complaints by Devici (2015), apologies by Elham (2017) and Keshani & Heidari-Shahreza (2017), disagreements by Heidari, Rasekh & Simin (2014), AL-Khanaifsawy (2014), Taqim (2016) and Sharqawi & Anthony (2019c). Since the politeness level of any speech act depends on the level of the directness of that act (Leech, 2016), then it is logical to assume that gender affects the directness level too.…”

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Analysing Gender Effect on the Speech Act of Suggestion: A Pilot Study

Sharqawi

Anthony

2020

AJIS

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This is a pilot study on analyzing the effect of gender on the speech act of suggestion. It introduces preliminary analyses of whether gender affects the use of suggestion strategies produced and recognized by Iraqi EFL learners. The strategies are dealt with from three perspectives: structural, directness, and politeness. The purpose of this small-scale study is twofold, (1) to explore if there is a relationship between gender and suggestions and (2) to check the validity and reliability and thus the workability of the instruments in question to a large-scale study. To this end, the study sampled voluntarily, on an equal base, 10 male and 10 female fourth-year undergraduates using a name-in-box method. The study used two quantitative-based instruments to elicit suggestions: Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT) and Multiple-choice Discourse Completion Task (MDCT). Each of which consisted of 12 situations approximating real-like interactions. The corpus was statistically analyzed via SPSS and yielded that gender affected the use of structural and directness strategies of suggestions, but it had no effect on the politeness strategies. Results along with the feedback of the raters, who were chosen to rate the situations, have both proven that the instruments in question are valid and reliable to work on relevant further studies.

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Analysing Gender Effect on the Speech Act of Suggestion: A Pilot Study

Sharqawi

Anthony

2020

AJIS

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“…Although speech act skills were emphasized by scholars interested in the EFL domain, from a wide-ranging linguistic perspective, it has been claimed that EFL eastern investigations on speech acts have remained underdeveloped and unsaturated (Pishghadam & Sharafadini, 2011). From a gender standpoint, it was confirmed that speech act literature does not pay heed to the factor of gender (Sharqawi & Anthony, 2019b;Sharqawi & Anthony, 2019c;Moradi, 2017;Coates, 2015). In specific, works conducted on the speech act of suggestion are reported as relatively low (Petrey, 2016;Sharqawi & Anthony, 2019b) when compared to other speech acts.…”

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Making Suggestions: A Perspective of Perspectives

Sharqawi

Anthony

2020

JESR

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The purpose of this cross-sectional quantitative study is to explore suggestion strategies as employed by gender in the Iraqi EFL context. It is a pragmatic descriptive approach where the speech act of suggestion is dealt with from the aspect of perspective based on a model developed by Li (2010). The study covers 26 males and 47 females who are asked to complete an open-ended WDCT encompassing 12 suggestion-required situations. The gleaned data are descriptively quantified and then statistically analyzed utilizing SPSS version 22 in addition to MS Excel 2016. Findings revealed a gender discrepancy at types of suggestions in which females are found to make more suggestions with hearer dominance and implicit dominance than males, whereas both genders make an almost equal amount of suggestions with speaker dominance, speaker-hearer dominance, and other dominance. Regardless of gender, it is revealed that Iraqi EFL learners tend to produce suggestions with speaker dominance more than other types of suggestions.

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“…According to Austin (2004), the value of the study is in specifics of the realization of communicative-pragmatic meaning in the genres of official written communication; in establishing and describing the basic principles of selection (Niamhom et al, 2018), organization and functioning of linguistic means expressing an address in the genres of prescription (Shokhayeva et al, 2020); in determining and considering the types of situations of addressing, presented in the genres of "law", "order", "international agreement"; in justifying the dependence of the choice of the lexicogrammatical form of the means of realization of the value, addressed to the criteria of the addressing situation; in identifying and describing the speech structure of prescription genres in a pragmatic aspect (Sharqawi & Anthony, 2019).…”

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Pragmatics of Speech Style in Business Communication as a Tool for Development of Modern Business Linguistics

Shokhayeva

Kalniyazova

Aryn

et al. 2020

HSSR

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Purpose of the study: The study aims to identify, describe, systematize, and compare linguistic means expressing communicative and pragmatic meaning in determining their composition, semantics, and functions in the genres of law, order, and international agreement. The development of linguistic thought is characterized by an increasing interest in the functioning of linguistic units in speech, increased attention to the human factor in the language. Methodology: A communicative-pragmatic approach described the transition from the study of genres as functional and stylistic types of text to their study as special expressions inherent in a certain area of communication. The authors used models of the relationship between linguistic units and their various associations with extra-linguistic situations of communication in a certain sphere of human activity. Main Findings: The authors showed specifics of the representation of the value of the address in an official speech, establishes a repertoire of language means that realize the meaning of address in prescription genres, determines the dependence of the choice of the lexico-grammatical form of means of express the essence of addressing, forms the speech structure of styles. Applications of this study: The work defines the specifics of the conditions of communication in the business sphere; revealed the communicative specificity of stereotyped role manifestations and speech behavior in terms of the functioning of oral and written genres, characteristic for speech communication in the professional sphere. The classification of speech genres is proposed primarily for the business area. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty is determined by the object of research and the enterprise's attempt to make a comprehensive description of the genres of speech communication in business from the position of communicative-pragmatic approach. The communicative-pragmatic method in modern linguistics has updated the research of the specifics of speech communication and language support of speech communication in various spheres of human activity.

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Analyzing the Speech Act of Disagreement Produced by Iraqi Efl Learners: A Gender Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Analysing Gender Effect on the Speech Act of Suggestion: A Pilot Study

Analysing Gender Effect on the Speech Act of Suggestion: A Pilot Study

Making Suggestions: A Perspective of Perspectives

Pragmatics of Speech Style in Business Communication as a Tool for Development of Modern Business Linguistics

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