Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language

Blum‐Kulka, Shoshana

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“…For applied linguists concerned with language acquisition and with intercultur al communicati on, the insights gained through analysis of the social aspects of language use are of particular importance. Recent studies of such speech acts as apologies (Cohen and Olshtain 1981, Olshtain 1983, Olshtain and Cohen 1983, directives (Ervin-Tripp 1976, Blum-Kulka 1982 In earlier work on the analysis of complimentin g behavior among middle-clas s Americans (Manes and, it was demonstrate d that there exists a considerabl e (and previously unsuspected) amount of patterning both at the syntactic and the semantic levels. Examination of a corpus of approximate ly seven hundred examples of compliments uttered"in day-to-day interaction s and collected ethnographically , revealed that the spontaneity with which they are often associated is linked more to their freedom of occurrence within an <inter-action than to any originality in structure or lexicon.…”

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“…For applied linguists concerned with language acquisition and with intercultur al communicati on, the insights gained through analysis of the social aspects of language use are of particular importance. Recent studies of such speech acts as apologies (Cohen and Olshtain 1981, Olshtain 1983, Olshtain and Cohen 1983, directives (Ervin-Tripp 1976, Blum-Kulka 1982, expressions of disapproval (d'fl.mico-Re isner 1983), and compliments , Wolfson and Manes 198D, Manes 1983, Wolfson 1981) have rich implication s. It has been demonstrated again and again that beneath the surface structure of the linguistic forms and the social etiquette invalved in their use, lies a gold mine of information about the value systems of speakers. In studying apologies, for example, we learn what constitutes an offense, and in studying compliments we learn about what speakers value.…”

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Pretty Is As Pretty Does: A Speech Act View of Sex Roles

Wolfson

1984

Applied Linguistics

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University of Pennsylvani aOne important motivation for the study of rules and patterns of interaction in a given speech community is that it provides empirical evidence of cultural norms and values. For applied linguists concerned with language acquisition and with intercultur al communicati on, the insights gained through analysis of the social aspects of language use are of particular importance. Recent studies of such speech acts as apologies (Cohen and Olshtain 1981, Olshtain 1983, Olshtain and Cohen 1983, directives (Ervin-Tripp 1976, Blum-Kulka 1982 In earlier work on the analysis of complimentin g behavior among middle-clas s Americans (Manes and, it was demonstrate d that there exists a considerabl e (and previously unsuspected) amount of patterning both at the syntactic and the semantic levels. Examination of a corpus of approximate ly seven hundred examples of compliments uttered"in day-to-day interaction s and collected ethnographically , revealed that the spontaneity with which they are often associated is linked more to their freedom of occurrence within an

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“…For applied linguists concerned with language acquisition and with intercultur al communicati on, the insights gained through analysis of the social aspects of language use are of particular importance. Recent studies of such speech acts as apologies (Cohen and Olshtain 1981, Olshtain 1983, Olshtain and Cohen 1983, directives (Ervin-Tripp 1976, Blum-Kulka 1982, expressions of disapproval (d'fl.mico-Re isner 1983), and compliments , Wolfson and Manes 198D, Manes 1983, Wolfson 1981) have rich implication s. It has been demonstrated again and again that beneath the surface structure of the linguistic forms and the social etiquette invalved in their use, lies a gold mine of information about the value systems of speakers. In studying apologies, for example, we learn what constitutes an offense, and in studying compliments we learn about what speakers value.…”

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Pretty Is As Pretty Does: A Speech Act View of Sex Roles

Wolfson

1984

Applied Linguistics

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“…While the first two types of task focus mainly on the participants' interpretation of utterances, the last one can be used to elicit speech from participants and was therefore the obvious choice for us. The DCT method was first used by Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984) in the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realisation Patterns project and was devised by Blum-Kulka (1982) herself. More specifically, a DCT gives participants a situation (sometimes including the start of a dialogue) to which they have to respond by writing what their reaction at that stage of the interaction would be.…”

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The Expression of Politeness in a Bilingual Setting: Exploring the Case of Maltese English

Cremona

Assimakopoulos

Vella

2017

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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Abstract.Single-moment studies have traditionally been carried out with the aim of investigating the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic skills of non-native speakers compared to those of native speakers of a particular language. The present study aims to investigate the parallel skills in expressing politeness of Maltese bilingual speakers rather than differences between native and non-native speakers in this respect. Since the variety of English spoken in Malta has often been characterised as distinct from British English, we used a small-scale spoken discourse completion task to examine the extent to which British English and Maltese affect the expression of politeness in Maltese English, in the context of requests and apologies. To this end, we compared the responses provided by three distinct groups of participants in terms of the use of particular politeness strategies, as well as the frequency and intonation of politeness markers. The results obtained remain largely inconclusive partly due to certain limitations arising from use of the discourse completion task methodology. They nevertheless do provide preliminary evidence, which is, to our mind, worth exploring further, of a close similarity between Maltese English and Maltese in terms of the intonation that accompanies markers of politeness.

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“…In the current study the researcher is going to use an open questionnaire called Discourse Completion Task (DCT) on request developed by Schauer (2009) and another DCT on apology which is a modified version of 'Discourse Completion Test' used in Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP) (Blum-Kulka, 1982). The abovementioned CCSARP project focused on two speech acts (requests and apologies) in eight languages or varieties.…”

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Study Abroad and Interlanguage Pragmatic Development in Request and Apology Speech Acts among Iranian Learners

Khorshidi¹

2013

ELT

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This research study empirically investigated the impact of study abroad context on L2 learners' pragmatic development compared with study at home group in Iran. For the study abroad group the participants were selected from the Iranian students who registered in a six-month program in language institutes in India (Mysore) and for the study at home group the participants were chosen from the language learners at the most outstanding language institute in Iran (Iran Language Institute) at the intermediate level. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) including request and apology speech acts was used to measure the gains in the two groups. The DCT was administered one at the beginning as a pre-test and then at the end of the six months course as a post-test. Overall, the study revealed significant development in study abroad learners' pragmatic knowledge, whereas this change in at home group was meager. It was also found that a correlation governs the growth in apology and request proficiency in language learning. This comparative study moreover yielded this finding that gender is not a determining factor in the acquisition of pragmatic knowledge specifically in request and apology speech acts in language learning.

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Learning to Say What You Mean in a Second Language: A Study of the Speech Act Performance of Learners of Hebrew as a Second Language

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Pretty Is As Pretty Does: A Speech Act View of Sex Roles

Pretty Is As Pretty Does: A Speech Act View of Sex Roles

The Expression of Politeness in a Bilingual Setting: Exploring the Case of Maltese English

Study Abroad and Interlanguage Pragmatic Development in Request and Apology Speech Acts among Iranian Learners

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