A comparative view on socio-pragmatic parameters of requests

Koceva, Ana (2024) A comparative view on socio-pragmatic parameters of requests. In: International conference "Minds, Networks, Narratives: 90 Years of the Department of English", 8-9 Nov 2024, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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Abstract

Speech acts are frequently used utterances in everyday communication in many languages. One of the most analysed speech acts is the speech act of requesting. A request can be expressed through multiple forms and can be used to express multiple meanings. Although a request very often represents a single speech act, it is not a simple act, but an act highly influenced by social and contextual features, especially by the language and the culture of the speakers.
This paper analyses different situational contexts that cause the production of requests by native speakers of American English and native speakers of Macedonian. The focus is on the strategies employed by the interlocutors in the realization of the speech act of requesting. An online questionnaire was used as in instrument to gather the data, which was later qualitatively and quantitatively analysed. The situations in the questionnaire include different social distance and social status between the interlocutors, and a different context. The participants are university students.
The aim of the paper is to determine the language form of this speech act in two different languages and the socio-pragmatic features of requests in two different cultures. It has been concluded that the social and contextual features have a different impact on the American and Macedonian speakers that consequently results in requests with different patterns in American English and Macedonian.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Subjects: Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions: Faculty of Philology
Depositing User: Ana Koceva
Date Deposited: 11 Nov 2024 09:50
Last Modified: 11 Nov 2024 09:50
URI: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/34979

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