AN INTERCULTURAL STYLE: SERBIAN L1 AND ENGLISH L2 INTERACTION IN REQUESTS
Keywords:
Intercultural Style Hypothesis, request, Serbian, EnglishAbstract
Тhe aim of this study was to test the Intercultural Style Hypothesis, put forward by Kasper and Blum-Kulka in the introduction to their 1993 volume Interlanguage Pragmatics, in relation to requesting behavior. The study looked into observable diff erences in L1 (Serbian) and L2 (English) requesting behavior and how these relate to speakers’ L2 profi ciency levels. The respondents were asked to complete a set of Discourse Completion Tasks; the responses were codifi ed and the fi ve elements considered in detail were the following: alerters, request strategies, syntactic downgraders, lexical and phrasal downgraders, and mitigating supportives. Statistical analyses of the data provide some support for the Intercultural Style Hypothesis.
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Браун, Левинсон 1987: P. Brown, L. C. Stephen, Politeness: Some universals in language usage, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Блум-Кулка, Хаус, Каспер 1989: S. Blum-Kulka, J. House, G. Kasper, Crosscultural pragmatics: requests and apologies, Norwood: Ablex Publishing Corporation.
Блум-Кулка 1991: S. Blum-Kulka, Interlanguage pragmatics: The case of requests, in R. Philipsen, E. Kellerman, L. Selinker, M. Sharwood-Smith & M.
Swain, Foreign Language Pedagogy: A Commemorative Volume for Claus Faerch, Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 255–272.
Кеноз 2003: J. Cenoz, The Intercultural Style Hypothesis: L1 and L2 interaction in requesting behavior, in Cook, Vivian (ed), Eff ects of the second language on the first, Clevedon: Cromwell Press, 62–80.
Економидау-Когетсидис 2002: M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, Requesting strategies in English and Greek: Observations from an Airlines’s Call Centre, Nottingham Linguistic Circular, 17, 1–32.
Економидау-Когетсидис 2009: M. Economidou-Kogetsidis, Interlanguage request modifi cation: The use of lexical/phrasal downgraders and mitigating supportive moves, Multilingua, 28, 79–112.
Есламирасек 1993: Z. Eslamirasekh, A cross-cultural comparison of requestive speech act realization patterns in Persian and American English, Pragmatics and Language Learning Monograph Series, Volume 4, 85–103.
Каспер, Блум-Кука 1993: G. Kasper, S. Blum-Kulka, Interlanguage Pragmatics, New York: Oxford University Press.
Марти 2005: L. Marti, Indirectness and politeness in Turksih-German bilingual and Turkish monolingual requests, Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 1836–1869.
Пинто 2005: D. Pinto, The acquisition of request by second language learners of Spanish, Spanish in Context, Volume 2:1, 1–27.
Росе, Каспер 2001: K. Rose, G. Kasper, Pragmatics in Language Teaching, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Серле 1969: J. Searle, Speech acts: an essay in the philosophy of language, New York: Cambridge University Press.
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06-19-2010
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Димитријевић-Савић, Ј., & Димитријевић, М. В. (2010). AN INTERCULTURAL STYLE: SERBIAN L1 AND ENGLISH L2 INTERACTION IN REQUESTS. Nasleđe, 7(15/1), 27–45. Retrieved from http://35.189.211.7/index.php/nasledje/article/view/255
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