Natthaporn Panpothong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6489773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natthaporn Panpothong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natthaporn |
| FAMILY NAME | Panpothong |
| SIGNATURE | PANPOTHONG N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chulalongkorn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Independence or Interdependence
Self-construal can influence the ways people in distinct cultures think, perceive and interact with others. To date, scholars still present different arguments on the prominent self-construal of Thais. The present study aims at examining Thai linguistic data including proverbs, sayings, cultural key terms and interactional data in response to the question of whether Thai culture places emphasis on independent or interdependent perspectives of the…
The wide use of mai-pen-rai ‘It's not substantial’ in Thai interactions and its relationship to the Buddhist concept of Tri Laksana
Thai Ways of Saying ‘No’ to a Request
This paper investigates what Thai speakers say when they prefer to reject a request and how they make their refusal less face-threatening. Five different situations including refusing a high status teacher, a low status housemaid, a close friend, a classmate, and a stranger are examined. The study has found that for Thai speakers, a teacher and a close friend are more difficult to reject than a low status, a classmate, and a stranger. Even though…
Ironic Context-Free Ironies in Thai as Conventionalized Implicatures
It is claimed that there are no lexical items in English which are carries of ironic meanings (Myers 1978). Thai is, to determine whether an expression is ironic or not depends on context. Similar to English, most cases of verbal irony in Thai are context-dependent (Panpothong 1996). Yet Thai has expressions which always convey the opposite of literal meaning. In this paper, I refer to them as context-free ironies. Like dead metaphors, these expr…
Ironic Context-Free Ironies in Thai as Conventionalized Implicatures
It is claimed that there are no lexical items in English which are carries of ironic meanings (Myers 1978). Thai is, to determine whether an expression is ironic or not depends on context. Similar to English, most cases of verbal irony in Thai are context-dependent (Panpothong 1996). Yet Thai has expressions which always convey the opposite of literal meaning. In this paper, I refer to them as context-free ironies. Like dead metaphors, these expr…
Thai Ways of Saying ‘No’ to a Request
This paper investigates what Thai speakers say when they prefer to reject a request and how they make their refusal less face-threatening. Five different situations including refusing a high status teacher, a low status housemaid, a close friend, a classmate, and a stranger are examined. The study has found that for Thai speakers, a teacher and a close friend are more difficult to reject than a low status, a classmate, and a stranger. Even though…
The wide use of mai-pen-rai ‘It's not substantial’ in Thai interactions and its relationship to the Buddhist concept of Tri Laksana
Independence or Interdependence
Self-construal can influence the ways people in distinct cultures think, perceive and interact with others. To date, scholars still present different arguments on the prominent self-construal of Thais. The present study aims at examining Thai linguistic data including proverbs, sayings, cultural key terms and interactional data in response to the question of whether Thai culture places emphasis on independent or interdependent perspectives of the…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politeness (2 works)