Contrastive Study of Pragmatic Strategies in the English Speech Act of Requests between Uygur Students and Han Students

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10.2991/essaeme-17.2017.126How to use a DOI?

Keywords

speech act, requests, pragmatic strategies, Uygur students, Han students.

Abstract

Based on Searle's speech act theory, Brown & Levinson's polite theory and interlanguage pragmatic theory, this study makes a contrastive study of pragmatic strategies in English speech act of requests used by Uygur students, Han students and British students by means of a questionnaire. It mainly analyzes the differences between the former two groups of students in the choice of request strategies. The results show that there is a significant difference between Uygur students and Han students in the English speech act of requests, in terms of the use of indirect strategies, since Han students are relatively close to those of British students, while British students are significantly stronger than Uygur students.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - Contrastive Study of Pragmatic Strategies in the English Speech Act of Requests between Uygur Students and Han Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2017)
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