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Requests and politeness in Vietnamese as a native language

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العنوان: Requests and politeness in Vietnamese as a native language
المؤلفون: Nguyen, Thi Thuy Minh, Le Ho, Gia Anh
المصدر: Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ; Pragmatics / Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ; Pragmatics ; page 685-714 ; ISSN 1018-2101 2406-4238
بيانات النشر: John Benjamins Publishing Company
سنة النشر: 2022
الوصف: This study examines requests in Vietnamese, a much under-researched language, with a view to expanding the range of languages under inquiry. Open role-plays in six scenarios with differing social power and perceived imposition levels were used to elicit requests from nine Vietnamese native speakers. Data were analyzed with reference to the categorization of Blum-Kulka, House and Kasper (1989) for level of directness, choice of request strategy and use of modification. The findings suggested that unlike requests in some European languages reported in the literature, requests in Vietnamese as a native language were realized predominantly by means of imperatives in equal power situations and query preparatories in low-to-high power situations, regardless of imposition levels. Requests were modified preferably by means of supportive moves such as steers and grounders, and lexical means such as address terms, honorifics, modal particles, and appealers. These findings are discussed with implications for cross-cultural communication and the teaching and learning of Vietnamese as a second language.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1075/prag.23.4.05ngu
الاتاحة: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.23.4.05ngu
http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/prag.23.4.05ngu.pdf
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.ED2BF89B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE