A VIETNAMESE – AMERICAN CROSS CULTURAL STUDY OF TOUCHING BEHAVIOUR

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:08

... community of England, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, are chosen for contrastive analysis. - The data are collected by conducting survey questionnaires to examine the ways VNSs and ENSs ... conceptualizations of hedging and gives hedging strategies, based on speech act and politeness theories Chapter 3 (Data analysis and findings) analyses collected data to find out major cr...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... learned patterns of behavior and belief, cultural traints can be unlearned and learned a new as human need change. Obviously, language cannot occur alone and is never separated from social activities ... is a social interaction in which various factors relating to social distance and closeness are at play. Some of these factors are external to the interaction (social status, age,...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:58

... called cultural traits”. A trait may be a custom, such as burial of the dead; a gesture, such as a handshake or an idea, such as democracy. Following this understanding, cultural trait may ... communicative competent means, roughly speaking, to be able to communicate that which you wish to communicate. 1.4 Cross- Cultural Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of language...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40

... interest because it requires a great deal of pragmatic insight by the speaker and therefore are often rich with data that reveal the cultural orientation of language learners. (In many languages, compliment ... illocutionary act and perlocutionnary act. * Locutionary act: Are sentences that conform to the phonological and grammatical convention of the language. A Vietnamese pro...

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