disagreeing among power-unequals in english and vietnamese a cross-cultural pragmatics study = cách diễn đạt sự bất đồng giữa những người không bình đẳng về quyền lực trong tiếng anh và tiếng việt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS

LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES, AND GRAPHS

PART A: INTRODUCTION

1. Rationale

2. Aims of the study

2.1. Overall purpose

2.2. Specific aims

3. Research questions

4. Scope of the study

5. Contributions of the study

6. Methodology

PART B: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. Cross-Cultural pragmatics (CCP) and interlanguage pragmatics(ILP)

1.2. Speech act theory and disagreeing as a speech act

1.3. Politeness theory and its application to the present study

1.4. Disagreeing in previous studies and in the present study

CHAPTER II: METHODOLOGY

2.1. Research methods

2.2. Research design

2.3. Data analysis

CHAPTER III: CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND PRAGMATIC TRANSFER IN THE PERCEPTION OF RELATIVE POWER

3.1. Power and language in social interactions in previous studie

3.2. Perception of P in the present stu

CHAPTER IV: CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND PRAGMATIC TRANSFER IN THE USE OF DISAGREEING POLITENESS STRATEGIES

4.1. Disagreeing politeness strategies realized in the invested situations

4.2. Disagreeing politeness strategies in powerless situations

4.3. Disagreeing politeness strategies in powerful situations

PART C: CONCLUSION

1. Major findings

1.1. On inverse PTand CCdifferences in power perception

1.2. On negative PTand CCdifferences in the use of disagreeing politeness strategies

2. Implications

3. Suggestions for further studies

ARTICLES AND PROJECTS RELATED TO THE DISSERTATION

REFERENCES

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: QUESTIONNAIRES

APPENDIX B: CODING SYSTEM OF DISAGREEING POLITENESS STRATEGIES

APPENDIX C: STATISTIC RESULTS