"Poison to Your Soul" Thanks and Apologies Contrastively Viewed

Coulmas, Florian

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“…Bearing this in mind, different definitions have been provided for the notion of pragmatic routine, either using this terminology or equivalent terms. Some conceptualizations refer to the form of routines (Erman & Warren, 2000;Moreno Teva, 2006;Wray, 2000), while others focus on their functions (Bardovi-Harlig, 1999;Coulmas, 1981).…”

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Acculturation and acquisition of pragmatic routines in the study abroad context

Hernández¹

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Acculturation and acquisition of pragmatic routines in the study abroad context

Hernández¹

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“…For Guiraud et al (2011), thanking involves the basic emotion of "joy" but also the complex emotion of "gratitude". Thanking is therefore socially expected on those occasions where the speaker has been done a service by the addressee and its absence may be perceived as markedly rude and socially disruptive, as thanking is a reactive act par excellence (Coulmas 1981in Milà García, 2011). This also explains why parents insist on teaching their offspring to say 'thanks' (Norrick, 1978;Greif and Gleason, 1980).…”

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Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

Arévalo

2017

Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics

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The category of expressive speech acts has traditionally proven elusive of definition in contrast to other types of speech acts. This might explain why this group of speech acts has been less researched. The present paper aims to redress this imbalance by analysing the expressive speech acts performed by two groups of university students in two educational chats, carried out in English or in Spanish, respectively. The main purpose of the study is to find out if students express their emotions (and which emotions) when interacting online and, if the use of their mother tongue or not affects their performance of expressive speech acts in terms of frequency and type. To this purpose, Weigand's (2010) taxonomy of speech acts was followed, since it provides a more systematic delimitation of the traditional category of "expressive acts". Her distinction between emotives and declaratives was thus applied to the dataset under scrutiny. Results show that students opt for performing declarative acts but refrain from expressing their own emotions in an educational setting. As for the use of English or Spanish, no significant differences were observed, which reveals that the use of their mother tongue does not seem to affect the kind of acts performed.Keywords: expressive speech acts, educational chat, English, SpanishResumen: Tradicionalmente, la definición de los actos expresivos ha sido menos concreta que la de otros actos de habla. Esto podría explicar por qué este grupo de actos de habla ha recibido menos atención. Este estudio tiene como objetivo equilibrar, al menos en parte, este desequilibrio mediante el análisis de los actos expresivos producidos por dos grupos de estudiantes universitarios en dos chats educativos, en inglés y español, con el fin de descubrir si los estudiantes expresan sus emociones (y cuáles) cuando interactúan online y si el uso de su lengua materna afecta su producción de actos de habla expresivos. Para ello, se ha utilizado la taxonomía de actos de habla propuesta por Weigand (2010) pues ofrece una delimitación más sistemática de los tradicionalmente conocidos como "actos expresivos". Su distinción entre actos "emotivos" y "declarativos" se ha aplicado a los datos a analizar y los resultados muestran que los estudiantes optan por producir actos declarativos pero limitan la expresión de sus emociones en un contexto educativo. En cuanto al uso del español o el inglés, no se observan diferencias significativas, lo que demuestra que el uso de la lengua materna en este contexto parece no afectar el tipo de actos de habla producidos.

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“…Object of gratitude, according to Coulmas (1981), refers to some action (or action) of a benefactor or to a result of this action which arouses every verbalization of thanking or every sincere verbalization of thanking. Thanking or expressing gratitude tends to be originated just from these realistic or potential benefits a beneficiary does or will gain.…”

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On Appropriacy of Thanking: Dynamic Compensation and Adaptation

Liao¹

2013

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Appropriacy is the paramount consideration of such an inherently polite speech act as thanking in its use. Traditional study of thanking focuses more on the quantitative investigation of its diverse forms and functions than on interpretation of the process in which it is used appropriately and adequately or not among English native or nonnative speakers. This paper particularly explores how to make the speech act of thanking appropriate and acceptable in dynamic context from the perspective of Chinese EFL learners who tend to respond in mute English or Chinglish in cross-culture thanking situation through analysis of the spoken discourse based on cognitive and cultural comparative approach. It contents that in foreign language learning environment, L2 contextual knowledge also comes into compensation for the lack of authentic context compatible with L2 use in the diachronic process of EFL learning as L1 contextual knowledge does. In a specific communicative situation, the learner has to manipulate his contextual cognition consciously and make an appropriate choice among linguistic or strategic forms activated by the two types of contextual knowledge stored in memory. The choice-making needs considering adaptation to dynamic context like the objects of gratitude, the benefactor's psychological state and the communicative social context as the most important parameters. Only in that way is appropriacy of thanking possible in cross-cultural communication.

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"Poison to Your Soul" Thanks and Apologies Contrastively Viewed

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Acculturation and acquisition of pragmatic routines in the study abroad context

Acculturation and acquisition of pragmatic routines in the study abroad context

Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

On Appropriacy of Thanking: Dynamic Compensation and Adaptation

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