Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study
The speech act of requesting by Iraqi postgraduates is selected as the unit of analysis because requests often call for strategies of indirection; requests are face-threatening, and the possibility of offending someone is inherent in the act itself (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Some studies have bee...
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description | The speech act of requesting by Iraqi postgraduates is selected as the unit of analysis because requests often call for strategies of indirection; requests are face-threatening, and the possibility of offending someone is inherent in the act itself (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Some studies have been conducted on native speakers of Arabic concerned with speech act in general and requests in particular. However, within the Iraqi context, there is no single empirical study that has looked at the specific speech act of requesting by Iraqis in English. Hence, this study fills an existing gap in pragmatic research by looking at Iraqis’ pragmatic ability when perceiving and producing the speech act of requesting. |
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spelling | usm.eprints-433002019-04-12T05:26:39Z http://eprints.usm.my/43300/ Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study Sattar, Hiba Qusay Abdul P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) The speech act of requesting by Iraqi postgraduates is selected as the unit of analysis because requests often call for strategies of indirection; requests are face-threatening, and the possibility of offending someone is inherent in the act itself (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Some studies have been conducted on native speakers of Arabic concerned with speech act in general and requests in particular. However, within the Iraqi context, there is no single empirical study that has looked at the specific speech act of requesting by Iraqis in English. Hence, this study fills an existing gap in pragmatic research by looking at Iraqis’ pragmatic ability when perceiving and producing the speech act of requesting. 2011-02 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/43300/1/HIBA%20QUSAY%20ABDUL%20SATTAR.pdf Sattar, Hiba Qusay Abdul (2011) Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia. |
spellingShingle | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) Sattar, Hiba Qusay Abdul Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title | Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title_full | Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title_fullStr | Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title_short | Iraqi Postgraduates’ Perception And Production Of Requests In English: A Pragmatic Study |
title_sort | iraqi postgraduates perception and production of requests in english a pragmatic study |
topic | P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics(General) |
url | http://eprints.usm.my/43300/1/HIBA%20QUSAY%20ABDUL%20SATTAR.pdf |
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