An Empirical Study of Indirect Speech Acts in Resumes  

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Popken, Randall L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 3 (1993), page 239-250.
Fulltext: 12_03_Popken.pdf (853.54KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/12 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper reports on a study that investigated ways that personnel professionals read the contents of resumes. It explored two central questions: (a) Do professionals rely upon inference and indirect speech acts when they read resumes? (b) If they do share a predisposition toward inferential reading, how similar are the inferences that a group of such readers would make? Using a discourse interview method of inquiry, the study investigated responses by thirty personnel officers to six resume content areas that might elicit inferential readings: marital and parenthood status; hobbies; extracurricular activities; college grades; lists of known reference writers' names; and professionally-printed format. The results suggest that professional readers do share a special inferential reading of resumes and that there may even be some similarities in their specific inferences. On the whole, however, the thirty readers did not share the kind of consistent reading that might result in a formula for how to write a resume. On the other hand, the results of the study can be beneficial to teachers of resumes to both native and non-native speakers. They can reveal biases, show shortcomings of popular prescriptions of resumes, and, more generally, help students recognize the indeterminacy of interpretation in certain genres.

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