Cortesía verbal y nivel de oblicuidad en la producción de peticiones por hablantes de inglés y de español

The main purpose of the present study is to compare the selection of level of directness in the production of requests by native speakers of Spanish and by native and non-native speakers of English. A second objective will be to investigate how situational factors affect the selection of level of di...

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Autor: Díaz Pérez, Francisco Javier
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2005
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)
Repositorio:RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
OAI Identifier:oai:riull.ull.es:915/18892
Acesso em linha:http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18892
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:pragmática intercultural
pragmática de la interlengua
cortesía verbal
actos de habla
peticiones
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Resumo:The main purpose of the present study is to compare the selection of level of directness in the production of requests by native speakers of Spanish and by native and non-native speakers of English. A second objective will be to investigate how situational factors affect the selection of level of directness. In order to collect the data for this study, two versions of a discourse completion test (DCT) have been administered: one in Spanish and the other in English. Two hundred and twenty-five informants participated in this study altogether. All of them were university students. The study reveals that English native speakers are those who most frequently choose the types of categories and strategies which are less threat- ening to the hearer’s face, whereas Spanish speakers are those who use the most threatening types. In addition, the productions of requests by the group of non-native speakers of English in this respect seem to be influenced by their native language, in this case Spanish. Situational factors have also been shown to have an effect on the choice of category and strategy.