"Ma'am, toilet!" : common ground in an L2 interaction and interlanguage pragmatics of request  

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Sari, Faizah

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Seventh Conference on English Studies ( CONEST 7), Jakarta, 26-27 November 2010, page 95-101.
Topik: L2 pragmatics; modal auxiliary; request permission; speech acts.
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The paper offers an outlook toward interactions between English as L2 undergraduate students and an English-speaking instructor in a classroom setting where requests for permission for bathroom breaks were proposed. Logs of requests by the L2 speakers and separate interviews were analyzed to generate specific patterns on the organization of requests. The treatment for indirect speech acts (Searle, 1975; Geis, 1995; Krifka, 2002) and common ground in cross-cultural interaction (Pomerantz & Mandelbaum, 2005; Wouk, 1998; 2001; Sari 2008) yielded cross-linguistic influence on general classroom manners and interlanguage pragmatics of request. Results indicated that the L2 speaker transferred embedded speech acts normally used in the native culture to replicate the request, which lacks three important elements of permission request in L2, including proposal, modal auxiliaries, and the request’s prosodic qualities (Leech & Svartvik, 1994). The juxtaposed analyses create a step-by-step process for understanding such a request and recommendations for improving L2 pragmatics.

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