Refusing in a foreign language
An investigation of problems encountered by Chinese learners of English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11293149 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuh-Fang Chang (0000-0003-0080-4597, National Chung Hsing University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-98 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Multilingua (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/mult.2011.004 |
| OpenAlex | W1966117478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 19 |
Whereas the speech act of refusal is universal across language, the politeness value and the types of linguistic forms used to perform it vary across language and culture. The majority of the comparative pragmatic research findings were derived from one single source of data (i.e., either production data or perception data). Few attempts have been made to collect different sources of data to triangulate the findings. This study attempts to fill this gap by examining the problems that Chinese learners of English encounter when performing refusal responses through the comparison of production and perception data between an NS group and a Chinese learners of English group. The results showed that one major problem found in Chinese EFL learners' production and perception regarding refusing in English involved their relying on the indirect L1 communication style manifested in the less frequent use of direct refusal strategies and frequent use of excuse/reason with specific and significant details in L2 refusals. The other major problem in Chinese EFL learners' refusal responses concerned the ungrammatical sentences and inaccurate word choice, which often caused confusion
Confusion · Excuse · Linguistics · Perception · Politeness · Political science · Production (economics · Style (visual arts · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
The Pragmatics of Refusing a Request in Italian and American English
Emergence of Marked Semantic Formulas in Refusal Strategy Hierarchies
Refusals in Jordanian Arabic and Chinese
Perceptions of refusals with explanations
A closer look at explanations in refusals
Saying “no” in emails in Mandarin Chinese and Australian English
Understanding refusal style and pragmatic competence of teenage Cantonese English learners in refusals
How do Chinese speakers of English manage rapport in extended concurrent speech
Assisting the development of sociopragmatic skills
Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts
Replication in L2 pragmatics
The refusal speech act in a cross-cultural perspective
Developing the ability to refuse
Sociopragmatic competence in American and Chinese children's realization of apology and refusal
Research Methods in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Natural speech vs. elicited data
Universalistic and culture-specific perspectives on variation in the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language
Declining an invitation
Closing the conversation
Western and Comparative Perspectives on Truth
On the universality of face
Pragmatic transfer
A contrastive pragmatic study on American english and mandarin refusal strategies
Eliciting Speech Act Data in Japanese
An inquiry into empirical pragmatics data-gathering methods
Linguistic politeness in Mexico
Beyond politeness theory
Interlanguage Refusals
Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese
Power behind Linguistic Behavior
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |