A cross cultural study on pragmatic transfer in compliment responses by learners of english at hung vuong university

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND APENDICES

PART A: INTRODUCTION

PART B: DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW

1.1. Pragmatics and speech act

1.2. Theories of politeness

1.3. Interlanguage pragmatics and communicative competence

1.4. Pragmatic transfer

1.5. The speech acts of complimenting and responses to compliments

1.5.1. The speech acts of complimenting

1.5.2. Compliment responses

1.5.3. Previous studies of pragmatic transfer in responding to compliments

CHAPTER 2: THE STUDY

2.1. Subjects

2.2. Instruments and procedures

2.3. Administration of the questionnaires

2.4. Data collection procedures

2.5. Coding and data analysis

2.6. Summary

CHAPTER 3: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

3.1. Pragmatic strategies used in responding to compliments

3.1.1. Strategies from acceptance to denial

3.1.3. Frequency of pragmatic strategies used in responding to compliments by all groups

3.2. A comparison of the pragmatic strategies used among the groups

3.2.1. Similarities in the frequency of CR strategy use between the HVU learners of English and NV groups

3.2.2. Differences in the frequency of CR strategy use between the HVU learners of English and NE groups

3.3. The occurrences of pragmatic transfer

3.4. Summary

PART C: CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

APPENDICES