Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6579-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5999265
