Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

AlAfnan, Mohammad Awad

doi:10.52462/jlls.29

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“…Politeness theory was used in a large number of studies to investigate politeness/impoliteness (Abel, 2003;Eelen, 2001;Haugh, 2007;Locher, 2012). It was used to examine politeness/impoliteness in workplace context (AlAfnan, 2014(AlAfnan, , 2015(AlAfnan, , 2018, workplace email (AlAfnan, 2021a(AlAfnan, , 2021b, interlingual requests (Al-Amri, 2011), apology (Yeganeh 2012), swearing (Abdel-Jawad, 2000, and even research papers (Getkham, 2014). AlAfnan (2022) used politeness theory to investigate politeness in a nonverbal communication context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Politic Driving Behavior in Africa: An Investigation into Positive and Negative Politeness through Signs and Signals

AlAfnan

2023

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The study examines the use of nonverbal positive and negative politeness through the ‘encoding’ by ‘giving signals’ and the ‘decoding’ by ‘following signs’ of the politic-driving behavior in Africa. The thematic framework is basically based on the work of Brown and Levinson (1987) and AlAfnan (2022). The research sample included 723 drivers from 16 African countries [1]that belong to the five African regions. The examination looked into four variables that are the age, gender, level of education, and country of origin of respondents. The study found a positive correlation between education and politic driving behavior as educated drivers, especially female drivers, tend to be more cautious about their self-image and other drivers’ self-esteem than uneducated drivers. The study also reveals that age plays a significant role in following politic driving behavior as elder drivers are more polite than younger drivers, regardless of gender. The study also showed that Algerian male and female, Moroccan male and female, Tunisian male and female, and Cameroonian female drivers have the highest frequency of ‘following signs’ and that Moroccan male and female, Egyptian male, Algerian female, Tunisian male, Botswana male, and Cameroonian male drivers have the highest frequency of ‘giving signals’, which reflects their self-awareness and interest in other drivers’ self-esteem and self-worth.

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Politic Driving Behavior in Africa: An Investigation into Positive and Negative Politeness through Signs and Signals

AlAfnan

2023

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“…It includes communicators' presuppositions, their knowledge of the world around them, and their knowledge of each other (AlAfnan, 2022a, 2022b, Bayat, 2012. It further takes the analysis into what knowledge was taken into consideration in these communicative events and what elements of knowledge were left out or ignored (AlAfnan, 2021a). In this analysis, the intentions of speakers are an integral part of the analysis as it assists in providing an in-depth understanding of communicative events (AlAfnan, 2015(AlAfnan, , 2021b.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Speech act theory was used in various studies to examine language as social action (Ackerman, 1979, Akinwotu, 2013, Altikiri, 2011. It was used to examine requests, politeness, apologies (AlAfnan, 2022, 2021a, Bardovi-Harlig, 2012, Nureddeen, 2008, inaugural speeches (Putri, 2018), defamation texts (Sholihatin, 2020), and language learning settings (Budiasih et al, 2016). Even though some studies focused on examining the use of speech acts in political discourse, they mainly focused on presidential speeches where motivation, persuasion, and possible political gains are intended.…”

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A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General's Opening Remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine

AlAfnan¹,

Oshchepkova²

2022

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This study examines language use as social action. Using Austin’s (1962), Bach’s (2003), and Searle’s (1969) speech act theory and categorizations of constative utterances, performative utterances, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts, this study examines the speech acts used by the UN’s Secretary-General in his opening remarks in the Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. The study likewise examines the intended social actions and the social effects they have on the audience. This study reveals that the UN’s Secretary-General made use of a balance between the usage of utterances that express a belief, intention, and desire (constative utterances) and utterances that carry social actions (performative utterances). This study furthermore reveals that reporting, informing, and announcing are the most popular constative utterances in the speech to provide Security Council members a comprehensive idea about the situation in Ukraine and the possible consequences. The study also affirms that directive and assertive illocutionary acts are the most popular performative utterances used in the speech to achieve the perlocutionary effects of asserting, stating, claiming, concluding, requesting, urging, advising, requiring, and ordering. Speech analysis reveals that the UN’s Security General did not use any declarative illocutionary act as he intended to avoid jumping to conclusions, on the one hand and avoid taking sides, on the other hand.

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“…Just like politeness theory (Brown and Levinson, 1987), stylistics (Halliday, 1978), register (AlAfnan, 2015Halliday and Hasan, 1976) and implicature (Grice, 1975), it is rooted in pragmatics. It examines text in context to find out more about the force (AlAfnan, 2021a(AlAfnan, , 2021b. Speech acts, according to Yule (1996), are the smallest linguistic unit of communication.…”

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Uniting for Peace: A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 A (V)

AlAfnan

2022

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This study examines the use of speech acts in the United Nations General Assembly Resolution number 377 A (V). Using Bach’s (2003) speech acts categorizations, the study aims to identify the illocutionary and perlocutionary acts used in the resolution as it aims to examine how the resolution is constructed and interpreted. The study reveals that the resolution incorporated instances of directives, constatives and commissives illocutionary acts. The perlocutionary effects of the directive illocutionary acts comprised instructing, advising, urging, requesting and recommending; the perlocutionary effects of the constative illocutionary acts included reaffirming, recognizing, and stating; and the perlocutionary effects of the commissive illocutionary acts encompassed assuring and inviting. It is also found that the resolution is constructed using two structural patterns: the constative-directive pattern to recognize accountability then provide regulative directives (herewith, it shall be that) and the commissive-constative-directive pattern to renew commitment, recognize responsibilities and provide regulative directives. The study furthermore reveals that the resolution encompasses high degree of imposition in the regulatory directive illocutionary acts, but the level of imposition varied when addressing entities. The resolution comprise high degree of imposition in addressing the General Assembly, the Secretary General and committees but low (weakened) degree of imposition in addressing the Security Council, which reflects different power relations in discourse.

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Diglossic features of the Arabic-speaking community in Australia: The influences of age, education, and prestige

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Politic Driving Behavior in Africa: An Investigation into Positive and Negative Politeness through Signs and Signals

Politic Driving Behavior in Africa: An Investigation into Positive and Negative Politeness through Signs and Signals

A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General's Opening Remarks to the General Assembly Emergency Special Session on Ukraine

Uniting for Peace: A Speech Act Analysis of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 A (V)

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