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Pathanasin, Saranya; Eschstruth, Ian – rEFLections, 2022
The aim of this study is twofold: to analyze politeness strategies in the online conversations of Thai students, and to suggest how this analysis can be applicable to pedagogical practice. A corpus of a 21-month instant online conversation among students and teachers has been analyzed. Throughout the time of data collection, the teachers…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Undergraduate Students, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Zhu, Fan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of specific speech acts have been found to vary with culture, thus to perform a speech act successfully in a second language requires not only linguistic competence but also pragmatic competence of the L2 community. Though previous studies have shown dissimilarities in invitational conversations and general refusal strategies (c.f.…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Chinese, Native Speakers