Apologizing in Italian and English  

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Lipson, Maxine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching vol. 32 no. 1 (Feb. 1994), page 19-40.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/IRA/32 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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How much do cultural values affect the use of language? How can the language teacher help build the advanced student's language awareness? This experiment tries to address itself to these two issues. It analyzes and contrasts apology strategies in American English and in Italian in terms of Marion Owen's remedial strategies (Owen, M., 1983) and Olshtain and Cohen's semantic formulas in the apology speech act set (Olshtain and Cohen, 1983). The subjects for the study were 10 students at the University of Bologna and the unusual instrument used for data collection was the television: a series of American sitcoms was shown to the students and the respective apology episode in each sitcom was rewritten by the students for an appropriate Italian context. The differences between the original script and the students' versions were discussed and analyzed together. The purpose of the study was not only to compare apology speech acts and remedial strategies but to also exploit the television as an educative and stimulating resource in the language classroom where live and spontaneous language is difficult to isolate for observation and analysis. The findings suggest that the status and role of the participants in the remedial exchange situation affect the Italian speaker's choice of apology strategies and semantic formulas more so than they do the American English speaker's. The limitations of the study are pointed out as well as the benefits of this kind of work in the classroom for the development of the students' language awareness.

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