The Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic Strategies in L2 Pragmatic Competence: A Case of Pakistani ESL Learners

Saleem, Tahir; Anjum, Uzma; Tahir, Summiya

doi:10.1080/17475759.2021.1877176

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“…To achieve this, the way of choosing the language (words) must be in line with the goals. Thus, the findings of this study mirror the previous studies saying that an understanding of the context and setting, physical and psychological context, is a great demand (Darong, 2020;Darong, Niman, Su, & Fatmawati, 2021;Ren & Gao, 2012;Saleem, Anjum, & Tahir, 2021;Studies, 2014).…”

Section: Marriagesupporting

confidence: 89%

Face Threatening Act and Gender Bias in Manggarain Marriage Proposal, Indonesia

Darong¹,

Niman²,

Jem³

2022

IJSS

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This study aimed to describe and analyze the spokesmen's politeness strategies and gender bias in their utterances when making a marriage proposal in Manggarai, Indonesia. This study was under the philosophy of interpretivism with the employment of descriptive qualitative design. Six spokesmen in three different marriage proposals were the main source of data. Since the researchers were participant observers, relevant data notes were taken. To support the observation data, the researchers conducted interviews and documentation studies. Dwelling pragmatic theory, the obtained data were analyzed through some stages: data reduction, data display, and drawing a conclusion. It is discovered that on record without redressive consisting of positive and negative type is predominantly used as a strategy followed by redressive and off the record. In addition, gender bias was found in the use of the figurative language of metaphor, simile, and symbolism in the spokesmen’s utterances. In order to have effective and meaningful interpersonal relationships and communication, it is, therefore, crucial that we understand what to say and how to say it.

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Section: Marriagesupporting

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Face Threatening Act and Gender Bias in Manggarain Marriage Proposal, Indonesia

Darong¹,

Niman²,

Jem³

2022

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“…Furthermore, it is supported by past studies (Al-Qudah, 2001;Bataineh, 2013;Can, 2011; Dastrjerdi, 2013), who found the use of more detailed strategies with interlocutors of distant level and less with close friends and intimates.Notwithstanding, the ndings acknowledged the past studies(Chen, 2020;Dawson, 2020;Ezzaoua, 2020) who argue that the negative pragmatic transfer occurred in the production and comprehension of politeness strategies of advanced ESL learners because it is sometimes challenging to perceive and understand social distance scenarios in the target culture. The ndings also illustrate the PESL/E participants' progress towards approximation and development ofthe target culture'ss sociopragmatic knowledge, recognizing the judgments of earlier studies in whichSaleem et al (2021) and…”

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“…A number of Pakistani scholars (Azam & Saleem, 2018aSaleem et al, 2018) have pointed out that the English language within the Pakistani educational context is regarded as a subject in spite of a particular language; due to which, no speci c importance is given to this particular issue and not accounted so far. Further, it is observed that Pakistani ESL learners urgently need to develop both pragmaligistic and sociopragmatic resources (Saleem et al, 2021) because the new concept of the world has been constructed that is based on the developed resources such as modern technology and mobilization.…”

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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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“…To attain this, target language (English) learners should have both language and culture competence in their language production. Having insufficient knowledge of those two can create the so-called pragmatic errors (Gunduz, 2016;Saleem, Anjum, & Tahir, 2021;Zhu, 2012;Stukan, 2018;Brown & Levinson, 1978). Similarly, Mahmud (2019), Naoko Taguchi (2012) and Naoko, Taguchi & Cmu (2011) have revealed that pragmatic errors might occur as the wrong use of any linguistic forms and misunderstanding of what is meant by what is said in context.…”

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Repositioning Culture in Teaching Target Language: Local Culture or Target Culture?

Darong¹,

Menggo²

2021

PJEE

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The role of culture in teaching target language is undeniable. This article belongs to a literature review. As such, it deals with the reviews of culture integration in English Language Teaching. The article provides the conflicting findings of teaching target language with local culture or target culture along with the reasonable reasons for each. The writers adopt the systematic way of doing literature review consisting of four steps namely designing the review, conducting the review, analyzing, and writing the review. Drawing from the review of the progress reports in the field, the writer recommends an intermediary for prospective English Language Teaching accommodating both local and target culture in question. Recommendations for future research studies are highlighted at the end.

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The Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic Strategies in L2 Pragmatic Competence: A Case of Pakistani ESL Learners

Cited by 19 publications

References 49 publications

Face Threatening Act and Gender Bias in Manggarain Marriage Proposal, Indonesia

Face Threatening Act and Gender Bias in Manggarain Marriage Proposal, Indonesia

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

Repositioning Culture in Teaching Target Language: Local Culture or Target Culture?

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