An Intercultural Communication Study of Chinese and Malaysian University Students’ Refusal to Invitation  

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Farnia, Maryam ; Wu, Xiaojuan

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of English Linguistics vol. 2 no. 1 (Feb. 2012), page 162-176.
Topik: Intercultural communication; Speech act of refusal to invitation; Chinese international students; Malay university students; Malaysia; Strategies
Fulltext: Maryam Farnia (Corresponding author).pdf (236.45KB)

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One of the challenges brought about by intercultural communication is the cross-cultural understanding of what is meant by what is said in another culture. Performing a given communicative act in a different cultural background than the speakers’ own requires taking into consideration several issues in order not to be perceived as impolite, rude, or even offensive in the host community. The present study aims to investigate the pragmatic behavior of refusal to invitation by Chinese international university students and Malaysian university students in Malaysia. The second aim is to seek the respondents’ perception in the process of refusing an invitation regarding their cognition, language of thought, and perception of insistence after refusing an invitation. The subjects were selected from forty Chinese international students and forty Malaysian students at University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. Data were collected through a written discourse completion task and an immediate structured post-interview. An analysis of the data demonstrated that both Chinese and Malaysian respondents used similar type of strategies when refusing an invitation; however, they were different in terms of the number of strategies (i.e. frequency) used in each situation. It is hoped that the present research will not only make contributions to the studies of refusal behavior in the intercultural communication in general but to the pragmatic behavior of refusal to invitation between Chinese international students and Malaysian students in particular.

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