Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies
Cross-cultural analyses of speech acts are among the hot topics in contrastive studies and up to now various researchers have explored this very issue. Despite the ample studies in this field, the speech act of congratulation, especially the subject of ‘birthday congratulation’ remains untouched. Th...
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| description | Cross-cultural analyses of speech acts are among the hot topics in contrastive studies and up to now various researchers have explored this very issue. Despite the ample studies in this field, the speech act of congratulation, especially the subject of ‘birthday congratulation’ remains untouched. The study investigates the possible effects of being an Iranian or an American typical Facebook user upon the kind of the category which is drawn upon to send an addressee a birthday congratulation note on Facebook. The data collected are 120 birthday congratulation notes issued by 60 Iranians and 60 Americans on Facebook. Seven dominant categories emerged from the study namely ‘Illocutionary Force Indicating Device’ (IFID), ‘Blessing Wishes’, ‘Divine Statements’, ‘Poem and Pieces of Literature’, ‘Endearments’, ‘Felling Expressions’ and ‘Compliments’. Moreover, the possible significant differences between the two groups within these categories were explored. The paper concluded that, in five categories, the differences between the two groups proved significant where the two categories ‘IFID’ and ‘Blessing Wishes’ did not show any significant differences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5c1df49641e54a08aa6dd9434085e53e2024-03-19T22:27:27ZengUniversity of TabrizJournal of English Language Teaching and Learning2251-79952676-68762016-12-0181812314317259Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural StudiesAli Jahangard0Neda Khanlarzadeh1Ashkan Latifi2Sharif University of TechnologySharif University of TechnologySharif University of TechnologyCross-cultural analyses of speech acts are among the hot topics in contrastive studies and up to now various researchers have explored this very issue. Despite the ample studies in this field, the speech act of congratulation, especially the subject of ‘birthday congratulation’ remains untouched. The study investigates the possible effects of being an Iranian or an American typical Facebook user upon the kind of the category which is drawn upon to send an addressee a birthday congratulation note on Facebook. The data collected are 120 birthday congratulation notes issued by 60 Iranians and 60 Americans on Facebook. Seven dominant categories emerged from the study namely ‘Illocutionary Force Indicating Device’ (IFID), ‘Blessing Wishes’, ‘Divine Statements’, ‘Poem and Pieces of Literature’, ‘Endearments’, ‘Felling Expressions’ and ‘Compliments’. Moreover, the possible significant differences between the two groups within these categories were explored. The paper concluded that, in five categories, the differences between the two groups proved significant where the two categories ‘IFID’ and ‘Blessing Wishes’ did not show any significant differences.https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_17259_324a52317555b50bb1b0ae64051a7ed8.pdfcross-cultural analysiscongratulation speech actpragmaticsfacebook |
| spellingShingle | Ali Jahangard Neda Khanlarzadeh Ashkan Latifi Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning cross-cultural analysis congratulation speech act pragmatics |
| title | Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies |
| title_full | Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies |
| title_fullStr | Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies |
| title_short | Do Iranians and Americans Congratulate their Friends Differently on their Birthdays on Facebook? A Case for Intercultural Studies |
| title_sort | do iranians and americans congratulate their friends differently on their birthdays on facebook a case for intercultural studies |
| topic | cross-cultural analysis congratulation speech act pragmatics |
| url | https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_17259_324a52317555b50bb1b0ae64051a7ed8.pdf |
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