Investigating Deaf Students' Apologies: An Exploratory Study  

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Keenan, Susan K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 14 no. 4 (Dec. 1993), page 364-384.
Fulltext: Vol 14, 4, p 364-384.pdf (1.07MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APL/14 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper explores the written apologies of deaf students. The data, obtained from a discourse completion test (DCT), were analyzed according to strategies comprising the speech act set as identified by Olshtain (1989), use and types of intensifiers, and subjects' assessment of the situations. Results of the study show that both word choice and word order give a routinized feel (0 the apologies, in part attributable to American Sign Language (ASL). Results further show that strategy choices reflect the respondents' assessments of the situations, including a culture-specific view of what constitutes social offenses. A discrepancy in the data between written responses and the subjects' view of situation severity is attributable to these students' status as learners of English as a second language. Finally, the paper discusses the flavor of these written apologies and concludes that the observed bluntness of the responses is attributable to respondents' reduced control of English.

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