Impossible requests: L2 users' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic choices in L1 acts of refusal

Ewert, Anna; Bromberek-Dyzman, Katarzyna

doi:10.1075/eurosla.8.05ewe

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“…(example adapted from Gass and Houck 1999: 6) Depending on the context in which it is interpreted, B's utterance in (1) (Beebe, Takakashi and Uliss-Weltz 1990;Blum-Kulka and Olshtain 1984;Ewert and Bromberek-Dyzman 2008). Refusals are responses to other speech acts: requests, invitations, offers and suggestions.…”

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Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Bhatti

Žegarac

2012

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Abstract There are significant cross-cultural differences in the way compliments and refusals are made and responded to. The investigation of these speech acts touches on some interesting issues for pragmatic theory: the relation between the universal and the culturespecific features of complimenting and refusing, the importance of culture specific strategies in explaining how these speech acts are produced and responded to, as well as the relation between the message conveyed by a compliment or refusal and its affective/emotional effects on the hearer. The pilot study presented in this paper investigates the production and reception of compliments and refusals in the relatively proximate cultures of England and Poland. The findings reveal significant systematic cross-cultural differences relating to refusals, while the differences relating to compliments are fewer and more subtle. The data suggests that the cross-cultural similarities and differences observed can be explained in terms of (a) a universalist view of institutional speech acts and face concerns in rapport management, (b) the Relevancetheoretic view of communication and cognition as oriented towards maximising informativeness and (c) some culture-specific values. These tentative conclusions are based on very limited data and indicate useful directions for future research.

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Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Bhatti

Žegarac

2012

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“…Recent work on formulas in pragmatics has not pursued the acquisitional sense of formula to a significant extent or to the extent that other areas of applied linguistics have (see other articles in this volume). An electronic search of the journals consulted for this article shows that a very common use (if not the dominant use) of the term formula in pragmatics research is as a shortened form of semantic formula (see, e.g., Al-Ali & Alawneh, 2010; Allami & Naeimi, 2011; Cohen & Shively, 2007; Ewert & Bromberek-Dyzman, 2008; Félix-Brasdefer, 2009; Hong, 2011; Ishihara, 2007; MacNamara & Roever, 2006; Su, 2010).…”

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Formulas, Routines, and Conventional Expressions in Pragmatics Research

Bardovi‐Harlig¹

2012

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

101

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This article reviews the recent research on formulaic language in pragmatics from three perspectives: foundational issues, recurrent research questions, and the populations studied. Examination of foundational issues, including definitions and operationalization of the concept of formula in pragmatics, shows the way in which pragmatics understands formulaic language and what it contributes to the study of formulaic language, namely, a strong sense of social contract. Recurrent themes in contemporary investigations include how formulas are used in general and in specific contexts, determining how extensive the use of formulas is, attitudes toward formulas, acquisition of formulas in second language (L2) pragmatics, and formulas in pragmatics pedagogy. The third section reviews pragmatic research according to language community, defined for the purposes of this review as first language (L1; native-speaker communities), L2, cross-cultural comparisons, indigenized varieties, and lingua franca communities. The investigation of formula use by different communities addresses questions of the particular and the universal in formula use and the importance of community and community membership.

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Students’ L2 Refusal Appropriateness and Accuracy

Widanta¹,

Somawati²,

Ardika³

2019

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The study aimed at investigating refusal strategies performed by foreign learners of Indonesian language. Specifically, it was focused on researching strategies of refusal used by the participant, emerging frequency of each strategies, as well as appropriateness and accuracy of each strategy used. Sixty students majoring in Tourism were involved in the project. Discourse completion task (DCT) containing an invitation using three sociocultural aspects of low power (-P), low distance (-D), and low rank of imposition (-R) was used to elicit participants’ refusal strategies. Taxonomy of refusal proposed by Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz (1990) was applied to recognize refusal strategies used by participants. Result of the study revealed that there were three strategies of ‘direct, indirect, and adjunct to refusal’ used by participants in responding the invitation. However, two new sub-strategies found to enrich indirect strategies, they are ‘alternative (change subject)’ and ‘telling wish’. Dealing with participants’ appropriateness and accuracy, it could be concluded that their appropriateness in producing semantic formulas were higher than their accuracy (96,55% and 40,83%) respectively. In addition, there were two contradictive propositions finally underscored upon analysis of appropriateness and accuracy. In term of appropriateness, it is implied that L2 proficiency does not guarantee learners’ high appropriateness, which is in contrast with the Cordina-Espurz’s (2013) finding. However, in term of accuracy, it implied that the lower learners’ L2 proficiency is the lower accuracy level they are in, which is in line with Cordina-Espurz’s (2013) finding.

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Impossible requests: L2 users' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic choices in L1 acts of refusal

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England

Formulas, Routines, and Conventional Expressions in Pragmatics Research

Students’ L2 Refusal Appropriateness and Accuracy

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