Social actions performed through language are the focal object of research on speech act realization (speech act research,1 for short) and conversation analysis, among other approaches to discourse that I will not consider here. Yet because of their di¤erent disciplinary origins and histories, the two approaches are interested in di¤erent aspects of social action mediated through language and, ...

Several  studies  have  indicated  that  the  range  and  linguistics  expressions  of  external modifiers  available  in  one  language  differ  from  those  available  in  another  language.  The present study aims to investigate the cross-cultural differences and similarities with regards to  the  realization  of  request  external  modifications.  To  this  end,  30  Iraqi  and  30  Malay u...

The study compares how native speakers of German from the area Innsbruck (Austria) and Italian Rome (Italy) perceive communicative act backing out an invitation for dinner at last minute, in a situation low social distance. purpose is twofold: to shed light on orientation Austrian languages/cultures terms linguistic politeness, expand empirical cross-cultural research less-commonly investigated...

The aim of this study is to investigate the speech act persuasion used by Saudis learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Moreover, I seek explore differences between genders in use these strategies. participants are 50 males and females at level 7 their bachelor’s degree English. Data collected using Discourse Completion Test (DCT) method, which contains six scenarios similar real-life si...

Based upon a theoretical framework of politeness and face-threatening acts (FTAs), an ethnographic investigation of naturally occurring apologies and politeness strategies in Cuernavaca Spanish was accomplished. Using a modified version of BlumKulka et al.’s (1989) Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project Coding Manual for Apologies and a corpus of (200) naturally occurring apology events,...