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T1 Cortesía verbal y nivel de oblicuidad en la producción de peticiones por hablantes de inglés y de español
A1 Díaz Pérez, Francisco Javier
K1 pragmática intercultural
K1 pragmática de la interlengua
K1 cortesía verbal
K1 actos de habla
K1 peticiones
AB The main purpose of the present study is to compare the selection of level of directness inthe production of requests by native speakers of Spanish and by native and non-nativespeakers of English. A second objective will be to investigate how situational factors affectthe selection of level of directness. In order to collect the data for this study, two versions ofa discourse completion test (DCT) have been administered: one in Spanish and the otherin English. Two hundred and twenty-five informants participated in this study altogether.All of them were university students. The study reveals that English native speakers arethose who most frequently choose the types of categories and strategies which are less threat-ening to the hearer’s face, whereas Spanish speakers are those who use the most threateningtypes. In addition, the productions of requests by the group of non-native speakers ofEnglish in this respect seem to be influenced by their native language, in this case Spanish.Situational factors have also been shown to have an effect on the choice of category andstrategy.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2005
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RD 20-abr-2024