A Cross-cultural Study on Refusal Strategies between Australian Native Speakers and Iranian EFL Learners  

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Heidari, Narges Alipour

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Journal vol. 8 (2013), page 46-69.
Topik: politeness; speech acts; social distance; social power; Australians/Iranians
Fulltext: A Cross-cultural Study.pdf (1.32MB)

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First language (L1) pragmatic transfer (negative transfer) is usually considered one of the issues leading to pragmatic failure that may lead to sociolinguistic breakdowns. This study aims to investigate cross-cultural differences in the use of refusal strategies applied to reject invitations and requests by Australian native speakers of English (ANS) and Iranian EFL learners. The data were gathered using a modified version of the open ended discourse completion task (DCT) developed by Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz (1990), and a Persian translation of the same DCT. The subjects participating in this study were 30 Iranian Ph.D. students of TEFL, 30 Iranian native speakers of Persian (PNS), and 30 Australian native speakers of English (ANS), belonging to different educational and socio-economic backgrounds. It was observed that ANS and Iranian EFL learners differed in their use of refusal strategies, both regarding the total number of strategies applied, and the frequency of each strategy. Effects of L1 negative transfer and social status of the interlocutor were also observed in the answers received from the Iranian EFL learners.

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