Discourse Completion Tasks

Sweeney, Emma; Hua, Zhu

doi:10.1002/9781119166283.ch14

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“…The study applied a qualitative method, a study focusing on social world of which the data are taken from real people and real place [10]. In analysing WSL contribution to euphemism and use a discourse completion test (DCT) in collecting data; a questionnaire given to the participant with a certain prompt [11]. The questionnaire was distributed 70 respondents in 7 sub-districts.…”

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How Slang Contributes to Euphemism in Communication: A Case Study of Widal Slang Language (WSL) of Sundanese Society in Sukabumi, West Java Indonesia

Susilawati¹,

Gunardi²,

Indira³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 Septe

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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How Slang Contributes to Euphemism in Communication: A Case Study of Widal Slang Language (WSL) of Sundanese Society in Sukabumi, West Java Indonesia

Susilawati¹,

Gunardi²,

Indira³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 Septe

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“…The data are collected using a questionnaire based on the Discourse Completion Task (DCT). Discourse completion task (DCT) itself is a type of production questionnaire in which speech acts are elicited in the written form by some kind of situational description (Billmyer&Varghese, 2000 in Sweeney & Zhu, 2016). In this case, students are given a text complete with the context and they are asked to answer the answer based on the context provided.…”

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2019

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This paper investigated how Indonesian people give compliment to others in English to find the formula of the compliment the students use. The subject of the research is 27 Indonesian students of English Department from three universities. The data are collected by giving questionnaire to the students using the Discourse Completion Task. Students are asked to complete the sentences for giving compliment. The compliments requested are about appearance which consists of hairstyle, dress and figure; and ability and performance which consists of test result, getting the scholar and cooking ability. The result shows that for appearance, the most used formula is by using the word look then the use of be+adj. For ability and performance, students use the word congratulation and be+adj for cooking ability. However, some students give compliment based on Bahasa Indonesia form, not English form by giving some statements which are not related to the context. It is affirmed that compliment is influenced by the language that the people use and it is different from one culture to another.

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“…They cannot, however, be seen to replicate interactional data and to reflect what speakers would actually say in a particular situation (cf. Ogiermann, 2018;Sweeney & Hua, 2016). Field notes come nearest to such data but are limited given a bias towards salient and expected responses, the impossibility of verifying responses and also short-term memory restrictions, the latter which are particularly relevant where the researcher themselves is involved in the interaction (Golato, 2017: 23).…”

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Responses to Thanks in Ireland, England and Canada: A Variational Pragmatic Perspective

Barron

2022

Corpus Pragmatics

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The present study investigates responses to thanks across the varieties of Irish English, English English and Canadian English. Data are taken from the Lueneburg Direction-Giving (LuDiG) corpus, a specialised corpus of spoken direction-giving exchanges across pluricentric varieties constructed using Labovian-style methods. The analysis centres on the cross-varietal pragmatic choices made in responding to thanks on the level of tokens, types and strategies. Findings point to the broad universality of realisations of responses to thanks across the pluricentric varieties at hand. Variety-preferential choices are, however, also recorded on a national level, particularly in type and strategy preferences. While all varieties use a ‘minimising the favour’ strategy extensively, this strategy is employed to a comparatively higher degree in the Irish English and English English data. In contrast, the speakers of Canadian English use an ‘expressing appreciation of the addressee’ strategy to a comparatively larger extent. Speakers of Canadian English are suggested to orient more strongly to positive face needs, and speakers of Irish English and English English more strongly towards negative face needs. The paper also discusses the methodological challenges of contrasting spoken interactional data for cross-varietal pragmatic speech act analyses and shows some strengths of specialised corpora in this regard.

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Discourse Completion Tasks

Cited by 6 publications

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How Slang Contributes to Euphemism in Communication: A Case Study of Widal Slang Language (WSL) of Sundanese Society in Sukabumi, West Java Indonesia

How Slang Contributes to Euphemism in Communication: A Case Study of Widal Slang Language (WSL) of Sundanese Society in Sukabumi, West Java Indonesia

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