Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the using of such strategies. Role-play inte...
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| author | Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian, |
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| description | This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances
produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on
perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the
using of such strategies. Role-play interactions taken from 10 American speakers and a
perceptive questionnaire constructed based on the interactions were used to collect the
required data. Results of the questionnaire showed that more indirect complaints were
perceived as more polite by EFL learners. Furthermore, social variables of power and
distance made a difference in the degree of politeness perceived; Iranians (irrespective of
their genders) were more concerned about the social power of the complainee than the
social distance between the interlocutors. Subjects' gender did not have significant
relationship with how the participants assessed the politeness degree of complaints. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:49392016-12-14T06:37:21Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian, This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the using of such strategies. Role-play interactions taken from 10 American speakers and a perceptive questionnaire constructed based on the interactions were used to collect the required data. Results of the questionnaire showed that more indirect complaints were perceived as more polite by EFL learners. Furthermore, social variables of power and distance made a difference in the degree of politeness perceived; Iranians (irrespective of their genders) were more concerned about the social power of the complainee than the social distance between the interlocutors. Subjects' gender did not have significant relationship with how the participants assessed the politeness degree of complaints. Penerbit UKM 2012-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/1/pp%2520711_725.pdf Parisa Abdolrezapour, and Azizollah Dabaghi, and Zohreh Kassaian, (2012) Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 12 (2 (spe). pp. 711-725. ISSN 1675-8021 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html |
| spellingShingle | Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian, Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title | Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title_full | Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title_fullStr | Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title_short | Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English |
| title_sort | iranian efl learners' realization of complaints in american english |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/1/pp%2520711_725.pdf |