Chinese and American Request Strategy: A Study on the Speech Act Behavior of the College Students

Author

Peng Yuan ; Wei Wan-de

Author_Institution

Sch. of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2011

fDate

12-14 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Request speech act is frequently performed in daily life. The present study examines request strategies produced by Chinese and American college students in English. 30 Chinese and 30 Americans participate in the study and they all major in management. The data are collected by means of a modified written Discourse Completion Test. The findings indicate Chinese and American college students have more similarities than differences in terms of request strategy. However, Chinese are influenced by pragmatic transfer when they choose request strategies. The study has implications to develop Chinese English learners´ sociopragmatic and intercultural competence, which will facilitate intercultural communication and management in the future.

Keywords

cultural aspects; educational institutions; management education; speech; American college students; Chinese college students; discourse completion test; english course; intercultural communication; intercultural competence; intercultural management; learners sociopragmatic competence; management major; pragmatic transfer; request strategies; speech act behavior; Discrete cosine transforms; Educational institutions; Force; Pragmatics; Speech; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6579-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5999265

Filename

5999265