Social comparison theory maintains that people think about themselves compared with similar others. Those in one culture, then, compare themselves with different others and standards than do those in another culture, thus potentially confounding cross-cultural comparisons. A pilot study and Study 1 demonstrated the problematic nature of this reference-group effect: Whereas cultural experts agre...

the purpose of this study was to examine cook’s (2003) ‘multiple competence’ by investigating backward pragmatic transfer (from l2 [english] to l1 [persian]) in refusals to invitations. it explored participants’ frequency and content of refusal strategies in l1 regarding the status (i.e., power and distance) of interlocutors and the proficiency level of efl learners. the participants were persi...

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan tuturan juri American Idol musim kelima dan Indonesian kesepuluh dalam kajian pragmatik lintas budaya. Dua tersebut dipilih sebagai sumber data karena memiliki rating share tertinggi bagi masing-masing acara di negaranya. Peneliti mengamati tindak ilokusi yang muncul pada video tersebut. Metode pengumpulan dengan dokumentatif. melakukan tran...

the issue of speech act is a significant issue in pragmatics. speech acts encapsulate lectionary, illocutionary and perloctionary forces. i have dealt with what is said in speech. what is said is an achieved action. to be achieved, this action depends on presuppositions or prior assumptions between the speaker and the recipient of speech. the speaker discusses his previous references to make hi...

Language and emotion are two related systems in use, in that one system (emotions) impacts the performance of the other (language). Both of them share their functionality in communication. Since the nature of foreign language classrooms is ideally interactional, emotional intelligence (EI) gains importance. The aim of this study was to find out whether one's total emotional quotient and its com...

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) proposes several pilot tasks. In this paper, we focus on the spoken language understanding pilot task, which consists of tagging a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots. We compare different classifiers: the best system obtains 0.52 and 0.67 F1-scores on the test set for speech act recognition for the tourist and the guide respectivel...

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...