2011
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2011.004
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Refusing in a foreign language: An investigation of problems encountered by Chinese learners of English

Abstract: Whereas the speech act of refusal is universal across language, the politeness value and the types of linguistic forms used to perform it vary across language and culture. The majority of the comparative pragmatic research findings were derived from one single source of data (i.e., either production data or perception data). Few attempts have been made to collect different sources of data to triangulate the findings. This study attempts to fill this gap by examining the problems that Chinese learners of Englis… Show more

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“…They chose indirect strategies most to refuse others, and there were no major differences in their overall strategy use. This contradicted the results of previous studies which suggested that Americans tended to use more direct refusal strategies than Chinese (Chang, 2001(Chang, , 2009(Chang, , 2011Guo, 2012;Hong, 2011;Liao, 1995;Liao & Bresnahan, 1996;Lin, 2006). The discrepancy may be due to the effect of social change that western culture through mass media and language contact influenced the language use of Chinese younger generation (Chen & Yang, 2010;Cheng, 2011).…”
Section: B Overall Strategy Usecontrasting
confidence: 96%
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“…They chose indirect strategies most to refuse others, and there were no major differences in their overall strategy use. This contradicted the results of previous studies which suggested that Americans tended to use more direct refusal strategies than Chinese (Chang, 2001(Chang, , 2009(Chang, , 2011Guo, 2012;Hong, 2011;Liao, 1995;Liao & Bresnahan, 1996;Lin, 2006). The discrepancy may be due to the effect of social change that western culture through mass media and language contact influenced the language use of Chinese younger generation (Chen & Yang, 2010;Cheng, 2011).…”
Section: B Overall Strategy Usecontrasting
confidence: 96%
“…Appendix A). The reason to include the two instrument is for method triangulation (Chang, 2009(Chang, , 2011; Economidou-Kogetsidis, 2013; Lee, 2011;Yu, 2011).…”
Section: B Instrumentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In the present study, it is also possible that the teachers have their preferences in the use of these types. The explanations may also relate to the individual teacher's personality and cognitive domains, and teacher beliefs [43]. Other factors are influential too, such as the social factors (e.g., familiarity) proposed by [11].…”
Section: International Journal Of Languages Literature and Linguistimentioning
confidence: 99%