Cross-Cultural Discourse As 'Unequal Encounter': Towards A Pragmatic Analysis  

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Thomas, Jenny

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 3 (1984), page 226-235.
Fulltext: Vol 5, 3, p 226-235.pdf (531.8KB)

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In a previous paper in this journal (Thomas 1983a), I put forward the notion of 'pragmatic failure' (which I distinguished from linguistic error) and I discussed some of the underlying reasons for the fact that non-native speakers often seem inappropriately over-assertive or domineering when talking English. In a second (unrelated) paper on the language of asymmetrical discourse (see Thomas 1983b), I described a range of pragmatic and discoursal features which recurred with great regularity in the speech of the dominant participant in a variety of 'unequal encounters' (i.e. interactions in which one participant is in a position of authority relative to the other, as in police-suspect, teacherpupil interactions). This paper brings these two strands of research together, in order to demonstrate that one reason for non-native speakers sometimes appearing inappropriately domineering or authoritarian in interactions with English-speaking 'equals' is that they are inadvertently employing as 'communication strategies' certain linguistic features which, for the native-speaker, tend to be inextricably linked with the language of unequal encounters. I discuss in relation to cross-cultural spoken and written data two such features, and argue that they may well lead to some form of pragmatic failure. They involve the inappropriate use of: (a) IFIDs (Elocutionary Force Indicating Devices); and (b) Metapragmatic Comments, 'Upshots', and Reformulations'.

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