Disagreement realizations in Arabic

Evidence from the University of Jordan

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ID21200865
AuthorsHady J Hamdan (University of Jordan), Hady Hamdan (0000-0003-0146-511X, University of Jordan), Radwan S Mahadin (0000-0001-7697-1258, University of Jordan)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue3
Pages349-372
Publication date2021-07-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.18006.ham
OpenAlexW3182671314
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This paper examines disagreement strategies employed by speakers of Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA) with a view to finding out whether variables like gender and social status affect the linguistic choices and disagreement strategies they employ. The subjects are 28 Jordanian Arabic-speaking students at the University of Jordan. The researchers analyze the students’ interactional recorded responses to a set of stimuli included in an oral (recorded) discourse completion task (ODCT) prepared for this purpose. The ODCT comprises six scenarios in which the respondent is requested to disagree with two peers, two higher-status interlocutors and two lower-status interlocutors. The findings show that male and female subjects’ disagreement strategies tend to be influenced by the topic under discussion rather than by the gender and status of their interlocutor. However, some topics are found to be more provocative to females than to males

Arabic · Linguistics · Political science · Respondent · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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