This study examines service encounters in Saudi Arabia from a pragmatic perspective. Its aim is to investigate the possible impact of perceived cultural distance between customers and providers on choices. It specifically how construct their when talking same (versus different) cultural/ethnic background terms discourse structure; strategies request internal modifications, stylistic strategies....

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

Abstract Some utterances are pragmatically ambiguous. For instance, Tu peux fermer la fenêtre ? (“Can you close the window?”) can be a request for information or an “indirect request” (IR) to window. A possible way speakers make it clear whether they intend these expressions as direct indirect speech act is use cues such gestures prosody. It has been shown English that participants’ identificat...

This essay focusses on how the knowledge of cross-cultural pragmatics can provide a theoretical background for translation practice, especially in search equivalent functions. study concentrates Russian and Italian languages speech act requesting, that not only is request amongst most frequent acts, but also it realised different ways two target languages. In particular, whereas imperative comm...

In this position paper, we argue that second language (L2) pragmatic research needs to explore new avenues for integrating speech acts and interaction, by proposing a radically minimal, finite interactional typology of acts. While will introduce what mean interaction in detail below, the following argument helps us summarise issue consider study: When describe behaviour, sometimes use terms suc...