Second language acquisition of Spanish pragmatics

Pearson, Lynn; Hasler-Barker, Maria

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“…(2022) 7:8 Noticeably, social distance is found to have great effect on congratulations strategies behaviors in all four groups. In general, as scholars argue (Avazpour, 2020;Lect & Abdulkhaleq, 2020;Pearson & Hasler-Barker, 2020;Tereszkiewicz, 2020;Tsuchiya, 2020;Vassilaki & Selimis, 2020;Wardat & Alkhateeb, 2020), the greater the social distance between the speaker and the hearer, the more frequently IFID expressions (direct and/ or indirect) are employed. More specifically, people almost always utter IFID (directly and/or indirectly) when they are using congratulation strategies for strangers as in the following situation "a passenger is sitting beside you became very excited and happy for being appointed as a surgeon in a government hospital", and very often, they use "Congratulation/Heartiest congratulations" (BritE) "Bundle of Congratulations" (PESL/E), "Congrats" (PESL/M), and "Congratulations" (PESL/L) in their expressions.…”

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A pragmatic study of congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers

Saleem

Aziz

2022

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act “congratulations” is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation strategies of Pakistani English as second language (ESL) learners and British English speakers under the influence of social distance variable. A quantitative approach is applied in the analysis with the frequency of strategies (semantic formulas) being numerically analyzed. The current study recruited 120 participants, and who were further divided into four different groups: 30 British English speakers, 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the elite class, 30 Pakistani ESL learners of the middle class, and 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the lower class. For data collection, a discourse completion test (DCT) was used as a tool. The findings reveal that the most frequently used types of congratulation strategy are illocutionary force indicating device (IFID) followed by overlapped strategies (a combination of two), an offer of a good wish, expression of happiness, request for information, encouragement, expression of surprise, and suggestion of celebration, while other types of strategies are not used by the participants. The study reveals the existence of crosscultural differences in the use of congratulations by Pakistani ESL learners. The findings further show how the middle and lower class of Pakistani ESL learners use a more elaborated form of compliment responses (CRs) as compared to Pakistani ESL learners of elite and British English speakers. The findings may help in understanding the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of Pakistani ESL learners as compared to British English speakers.

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A pragmatic study of congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers

Saleem

Aziz

2022

Asian. J. Second. Foreign. Lang. Educ.

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“…There are a number of studies that are carried out related to speech acts within the ILP research context (Martín-Laguna, 2020; Pearson & Hasler-Barker, 2020;Tereszkiewicz, 2020;Zhang, 2020). These studies investigated the speech acts of refusal, greeting, thanking, apologies, congratulations, and through their ndings, the researchers claim that the major problem faced by ESL speakers during acquiring pragmatic competence is that the speech acts are extremely complicated, and vary in nature and function (Bartłomiejczyk, 2020;Esaua, 2020;Hsu et al, 2020;Kambash, 2020;Kretzenbacher et al, 2020).…”

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A Pragmatic Study of Congratulation Strategies of Pakistani ESL Learners and British English Speakers

Malik¹,

Saleem²,

Aziz³

2021

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People usually express their feelings and emotions positively to others when they have happy occasions. However, the ways of expressing congratulation may vary because the expressive speech act “congratulations” is not the only way to express happiness and share others their happy news. The present study investigates the congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers under the influence of social distance variable. For this purpose, 120 participants were recruited, and who were further divided into four different groups: 30 British English speakers, 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the elite class, 30 Pakistani ESL learners of the middle class, and 30 Pakistani ESL learners in the lower class. For data collection, a Discourse completion test (DCT) was used as a tool. The findings reveal that the most frequently used types of congratulation strategy are IFID followed by overlapped strategies (a combination of two), an offer of a good wish, expression of happiness, request for information, encouragement, expression of surprise, and suggestion of celebration, while other types of strategies are not used by the participants. The study reveals the existence of positive and negative pragmatic transfer in the use of congratulations by Pakistani ESL learners. The findings further show how the middle and lower class of Pakistani ESL learners use a more elaborated form of CRs as compared to Pakistani ESL learners of elite and British English speakers. The findings may help in understanding the pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of Pakistani ESL learners as compared to British English speakers.

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Second language acquisition of Spanish pragmatics

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A pragmatic study of congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers

A pragmatic study of congratulation strategies of Pakistani ESL learners and British English speakers

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