Influence of Chinese Culture on the Politeness Strategies in the Second Language Acquisition of English among Chinese Learners
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- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.195How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Politeness Strategies; Chinese Culture; Second Language Acquisition
- Abstract
Nowadays, English as a lingua franca has played an important role in Chinese learners’ second language acquisition. More and more Chinese students have acquired different levels of English through education or studying abroad. However, no matter how high the proficiency they have, sometimes their words are still offensive to a native speaker even when they are in an English-speaking country. It does not mean that they are not polite, but it may be caused by the difference in their politeness strategies. This paper investigates whether there is an influence of Chinese culture on those politeness strategies of Chinese learners who speak English and what the influence is. It will mainly focus on the positive and negative strategies. It also pays attention to the pragmatics that cause the differences between the dialogues of Chinese learners and native speakers. The method is a qualitative method by conducting interviews designed as Discourse Completion Tests. Interviewees are expected to imagine themselves to be in the four scenarios given and respond with short speeches that they think is appropriate in those circumstances. The results collected are compared with normal conventions of native speakers of English and analysed through various politeness strategies. Then the paper will discuss the reason behind these influences with the aspects of Chinese culture, including Chinese language structures, conventions and also hierarchy factors. This paper reveals problems that Chinese learners may have in the conversation with native speakers and aims for them to avoid such misunderstanding in later communications and improve their condition of second language acquisition by calling attention in understanding culture.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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TY - CONF AU - Zile Liu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/29 TI - Influence of Chinese Culture on the Politeness Strategies in the Second Language Acquisition of English among Chinese Learners BT - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1178 EP - 1182 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.195 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.195 ID - Liu2022 ER -