A sociolinguistic study of the realization of refusals among Yemeni EFL learners
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النوع | مقال |
ردمد | 1923869X |
مصدر المعلومات | ERIC |
المؤلف | Alrefaee, Yasser. Al-Baydha University, Yemen. |
المؤلف الاضافي |
al-Ghamdi, Naimah. Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, KSA.
Almansoob, Najeeb. Al-Andalus University for Science and Technology, Yemen. |
الصفحات | pp. 172-185 |
ملاحظة عامة |
Peer reviewed
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المصدر | International Journal of English Linguistics. Vol. 9, no. 6, 2019 |
الناشر |
Ontario: Canadian Center of Science and Education، 2019
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عنوان الناشر |
1595 Sixteenth Ave, Suite 301Richmond Hill. Ontario, L4B 3N9. Canada. Canadian Center of Science and Education. T: 0014166422606. info@ccsenet.org. https://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijel.
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ERIC رقم الوثيقة في | ED602246 |
المصدر الالكتروني | Full text (PDF) |
الواصفات | Sociolinguistics - Second language instruction - English - Religion - Language usage - Social status - Language proficiency - Language tests, - Interpersonal relationship - Semantics - Yemen |
لغة الوثيقة | الانكليزية |
البلد | كندا |
The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were compared with refusals of 20 native speakers of English (ENS) and 20 native speakers of Arabic (ANS). Data were collected using a Written Discourse Completion Test (WDCT) consisting of six refusals to invitations and requests in higher, equal and lower social status. This study finds out that Yemenis and Americans used different refusal strategies when refusing persons of equal and lower social status. ANS also used the adjunct of invoking the name of God which is religiously rooted and culturally specific to assert their excuses. Interestingly, Yemeni EFL learners showed a tendency toward the L1 pragmatic norms in the use of invoking the name of God and also in the use of more Direct strategies when refusing someone equal or lower in status. With respect to the content of refusals, Yemenis used general and vague excuses when refusing someone equal or lower in social status whereas Americans, on the other hand, were found to use detailed and clear excuses with persons of different social status. (As Provided)
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Alrefaee, Yasser. (2019). A sociolinguistic study of the realization of refusals among Yemeni EFL learners . International Journal of English Linguistics. Vol. 9, no. 6, 2019. pp. 172-185 تم استرجاعه من search.shamaa.org . |