Language and Gender Differences in Jordanian Spoken Arabic: A Sociolinguistics Perspective

Al-Harahsheh, Ahmad Mohammad

doi:10.4304/tpls.4.5.872-882

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“…Such a difference between the two genders agrees with findings of Eckert [25] and Holmes [26] who stress that women's language is more conservative than that of men. However, as far as the Jordanian context is concerned, the difference between men and women in relation to their linguistic style opposes the findings of Al-Harahsheh's [15] study in which he states that women try to get the listener engaged in the conversation by using more facilitative strategies showing more cooperation with the hearer than men do.…”

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“…The literature on this phenomenon is very rich. In the Jordanian Arabic (henceforth, JA) many studies have been conducted in terms of speech acts aiming for establishing a kind of relation between them and some selected social variables [10,7,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]9]. As for the present study, it focuses on the differences in the expressions of responding acts by Jordanian males and females found in their naturallyoccurring interactions with the call-centre-customer service of a leading telecommunications company in Jordan.…”

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“…Al-Harahsheh [15] analyses twelve dyadic conversations produced by students of a Jordanian university in order to find out the gender influence on their Jordanian Arabic in terms of the politeness strategies they employ. He divided the participants into two groups: the mixed-sex group and the same-sex group; each group was divided into two sub-groups: friends and strangers.…”

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“…Moreover, they try to get the listener engaged in the interaction more than men do using more facilitative strategies. Al-Harahsheh [15] concludes that in terms of cooperation with the other interlocutors, women seemed to be more professional conversationalists than men. The above studies investigated a number of speech acts in the Jordanian context relating them to different social variables including age, gender, region, religion, relationships, etc.…”

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Responding Strategies in Jordanian Arabic: A Socio-pragmatic Study

Amer

Buragohain

Suryani

2020

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This study aims to examine the types of response strategies employed in the interactions between Jordanians and the employees of the call-centre-customer service (CCCS) of a major telecommunications company in Jordan. It focuses on their linguistic behaviours upon responding taking into account the degree to which they adhere to Leech's [1] maxims. Naturally-occurring interactions and designed situations were used to collect data from 28 Jordanian Arabic speakers participated in this study. The results of the study show that participants adhere to a number of the maxims in that responses are made politely whether the act is achieved or not. Furthermore, it has been revealed that participants are impacted by the social and cultural norms of the Jordanian society.

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Responding Strategies in Jordanian Arabic: A Socio-pragmatic Study

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Buragohain

Suryani

2020

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“…Secondly, the social setting of the conversation itself; for example, the language used in the court is totally different from that language used in a café. Thirdly, the topic that speakers are talking about; for example, topics that may be discussed in an academic college are quite different from topics that may be discussed in everyday life dialogues by a family or among friends [3].…”

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A Critical Study of Arab Males and Females Interactional Styles in Formal Face- to- Face Conversations When Using English as a Second Language

Al-Ali¹

2019

ELLC

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It is obvious that the differences between Arab males and females interactional styles in formal face-to-face conversations when using English as a second language is interesting and uneasy task at the same time. In the light of the current research paper findings, the linguistic styles of males and females are quite different in regard with the conversation function itself, feedback of the conversation, the dominant gender in the whole conversation, some phonological variations and so on. Females prefer avoiding direct disagreement and maintaining the social rapport with other opposite gender. Females also depend on more easy ways or strategies to get the other speakers engaged in the dialogue as possible. Males, regardless of their status and educational level, seem less professional speakers and less cooperative than females seem. The process of communication among males and females; particularly, in the Arab word is complex since it is ruled by social and religious norms. But this process doesn't indicate that understanding their interactional styles in formal face-to-face conversations in a second language is not possible despite the small number of research papers conducted in such a field. However, subcultures play a basic role in distinguishing between males and females in conversation; meaning that if one gender comprehends other's subcultures, he or she will definitely be able to communicate in a much better way. The current research paper interestingly indicates that males are less fusty than females in dialogues as the last ones actually employ more strategies of politeness than males do. The researcher applied a descriptive method which is considered the most appropriate way for this current research paper; it is the method that describes the phenomena or the real situation as it is available in reality. However, more research papers are preferred to be conducted to highlight the differences between Arab males and females' interactional styles in; specially, formal face-to-face conversations in regards with prosodic characteristics just like pitch and intonation since such types of papers are rare in the Arab world.

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