Selection of linguistic forms for requests and offers

Tsuzuki, Masako; Takahashi, Kazuhiro; Patschke, Cynthia; Zhang, Qin

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“…The use of imperative structures is by far apparent in his talk for instance he used the phrase "we must" eleven times. It could be a legitimate reason for why Trump's comments are considered as controversial and disrespectful by some since it is claimed that English speakers consider imperative sentences less polite than other types and avoid using them (Kallia, 2005;Tsuzuki, Takahashi, Patschek, & Zhang, 2005).…”

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Word War: A critical discourse analysis of the UN general assembly’s annual debate, 2017

Sichani¹,

Rezvani²,

Moinzadeh³

2018

IJRSLL

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The use of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to unmask ideologies behind words and sentences has become trendy in language studies. The present study seeks to investigate the speeches delivered by two prominent presidents, Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump, to the United Nations (UN) general assembly, 2017. To do so, Fairclough's (1995Fairclough's ( , 2013 Model was employed. More specifically, this study focused on the morphological aspect of the two presidents' talks. This being so, the vocabulary section of Fairclough's (1995Fairclough's ( , 2013 Model was utilized as a theoretical framework in this study. The frequency of words was counted and different types of words and their ideological sides were analytically examined. Considering the context of both cases, the linguistic elements of these ideologically bounded talks were described. The results suggest that the two presidents adopted the same linguistics style for their UN persuasive arguments that were adopted in their presidential campaigns and debates. The results also depict that when two political figures hold a set of ideas and values which position them so far from each other, this contrast would lead to marked differences in their discourse too. The findings of this study would be a very a good addition to both language and CDA literature due to the fact that the use of linguistic features in political utterances is as high as ever.

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Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Word War: A critical discourse analysis of the UN general assembly’s annual debate, 2017

Sichani¹,

Rezvani²,

Moinzadeh³

2018

IJRSLL

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“…In fact, ‘the relationship between indirectness and politeness is interpreted differently across cultures’ (Ogiermann, 2009, p. 189) and, coinciding with the speech communities’ geographical location, requests threatening the hearer's face can become more prominent. Other studies (Tsuzuki et al., 2005, p. 285) state that depending on location it might even be conventional to realise requests directly and that ‘by examining the priority of the use of the imperative, [one] can explore the sociocultural precedence of positive/negative politeness in each society’. While in some Western cultures, for example the British culture, imperatives and directness might not be as acceptable, both can be perfectly acceptable in some Asian cultures (Tsuzuki et al., 2005) – though the specific context, the degree of closeness between the speakers as well as sociobiographic factors such as gender and age play an important role in the evaluation process.…”

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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English

Degenhardt

2021

World Englishes

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Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English as compared to their historical input variety British English by investigating the spoken components of the International Corpus of English, hence involving authentic, non‐intuition‐based empirical data. Based on a conditional inference tree and a random forest extended via the integration of interaction predictors, the present paper concludes that quantitative differences in the realisation patterns of requests in British, Indian and Sri Lankan English can be observed.

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Sociolinguistic Patterns

Song¹

2017

Second Language Acquisition as a Mode-Switching Process

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Selection of linguistic forms for requests and offers

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Word War: A critical discourse analysis of the UN general assembly’s annual debate, 2017

Word War: A critical discourse analysis of the UN general assembly’s annual debate, 2017

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Sociolinguistic Patterns

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