... therefore, necessary to look at some basic information on what is called pragmatics and cross - cultural pragmatics 17 Pragmatics, since its appearance, has excited great attention from many leading linguists ... they are familiar with each other The speaker and the hearer are equal in power; they are unfamiliar with each other The speaker and the hearer are equal in power; they are familiar with each ... misunderstandings Problems arise as language learners are not competent and fail to understand the cultural- social aspects of communication Take speech acts of invitation as an example Vietnamese saying goes:...
... questionnaire is obtained with 20 Vietnamese participants (10 males and 10 females) and 20 English participants (10 males and 10 females) including American, Australian, Canadian and English 20 participants ... provide a theory that has an integrated approach to speech acts Thus, besides carefully defining the term used in the research and creating an appropriate taxonomy, social, cultural, and pragmatic ... historical and cultural background, as well as his/her approach to life and his/her ways of living and thinking Brown (1994: 165) describes that a language is a part of a culture and a culture is a...
... motor cortex and pyramidal tract to the ventral brain stem The involuntary path is comprised of amygdala, thalamic, hypothalamic, and subthalamic areas, in addition to the dorsal brain stem Moreover, ... was considered to cause exercise associated bronchial asthma which is prevalent at a later age (18,19, 20) According to Gayrard P, 52.4% of 143 asthmatics stated their attacks of bronchial asthma ... Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Swati Mahajan (Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Medical College) • Dr Ashfaque Ansari (Lecturer, Ear Nose Throat,...
... multicultural approach - include a considerable element of comparison and may be characterized as a comparative approach The intercultural approach pays a considerable attention to the relations ... illustrations) are also employed for analysis when and if appropriate The study just makes an initial attempt to conduct a small-scale cross- cultural analysis of the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating ... language knowledge The teaching of Language Focus consists of two parts: Pronunciation and Grammar-Vocabulary Material used in teaching Pronunciation, Grammar -Vocabulary is based on passages...
... 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 be an ... to address to a young woman who is about the same age as you, or a woman only a fraction older than you Anh is used to address to a young man who is about the same age as you, or a man only a ... males All Vietnamese informants are my acquaintances and my family’s acquaintances who live in both Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces Some British and American informants are my friends’ acquaintances...
... paper with realistic data base will provide useful material for language learners Data collecting procedure As one important part of this thesis, collecting data procedure took the author a rather ... also the interesting topic attracting the author’s interest because it requires a great deal of pragmatic insight by the speaker and therefore are often rich with data that reveal the cultural ... J.L Austin divided speech acts into three acts: Locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionnary act * Locutionary act: Are sentences that conform to the phonological and grammatical convention...
... bee As cunning as a fox As fat as a big As fierce as a lion As fierce as a tiger As slippery as an eel As slow as a tortoise As slow as a snail As stink as a polecat As thick as ants As wet as a ... words: A dark horse Smell to a rat Leading a dog’s life To work like a dog A bull in a China shop A book worm Piggy bank Chicken Raining cats and dogs As blind as a bat An early bird A quiet as a ... Piggy bank Raining cats and dogs A bull in a China shop A dark horse To work like a dog An early bird A quiet as a mouse A copy cat 10 Eats like a horse 11 Smell to a rat 12 Talk turkey 13 A book...
... Argentina 12 Russia 13 Italy 14 France 15 Canada 16 Taiwan 17 United Kingdom 18 Colombia 19 Greece 20 Thailand 21 Australia 22 Venezuela 23 Saudi Arabia 24 Netherlands 25 Portugal The changing nature ... link with Romanians, who also show a weaker link with Body and Beauty compared Italian and Spanish participants The second phase of data analysis, using the One Way ANOVA test and the Games Howell ... de Rosa, A S (2005) A “Rede Associativa”: uma técnica para captar a estrutura, os conteùdos, e os ìndices de polaridade, neutralidade e estereotipia dos campos semànticos relacionados com a Representações...
... kindly made us aware of pitfalls in Datastream equity data.Very helpful research assistance by Sandrine Corvoisier, Peter Galos and Marco Lo Duca as well as editorial support by Sabine Wiedemann are ... the sample In contrast to fully non-parametric and parametric approaches, our semi-parametric approach allows to estimate reliably extremal behavior even beyond the sample boundaries A related ... preserve monetary and financial stability central banks and supervisory authorities have a special interest in assessing banking system stability This is a particularly complex task in very large economies...
... major challenge to develop an appropriate luxury value perception scale that would function cross- culturally in a reliable and valid manner A scale that is applicable cross- culturally should lead ... Conceptual Model Price Value Price Value Financial Value Financial Value Usability Value Usability Value Quality Value Quality Value Uniqueness Value Uniqueness Value Functional Value Functional Value ... Hassan, Salah S and Lea P Katsanis 1994 ―Global Market Segmentation Strategies and Trends.‖ In Globalization of Consumer Markets: Structures and Strategies Eds Erdener Kaynak and Salah S Hassan New...
... considered acultural universal In Oxford dictionary, marriage is a legal relationship between a husband and a wife 2.2 Vietnamese‘s opinion Marriage has a vital role in Vietnamese culture and tradition ... Vietnamese families were patriarchal: the man always took the lead - Divorce was legal but not common in Vietnamese society: a wife was expected to live in an unhappy marriage and sacrifice her ... family name but used their husband's family name formally They not pay much attention in fate marriage; they can easy to get divorced when they live in an unhappy marriage And divorced in marriage...
... Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, ... http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/5/1/10 Table 1: Geographical and risk factor related key words Region/Country Specific Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, additionally each country in sub-Saharan Africa was also searched by name: Angola, ... Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Disease/Risk Factor Specific Cardiovascular disease/heart disease/heart failure,...
... whenever we make a speech, we carry out an act A speech act is an act that a speaker performs when making an utterance, including the following: a general act (illocutionary act) that a speaker performs, ... accurate data as possible for the contrastive analysis The Vietnamese informants come from Hanoi and the North of Vietnam as the language in this area is temporarily taken as standard Vietnamese ... cultural reality Language is a system of signs with cultural values Language of a group can be viewed as a symbol of their social identity It can be obviously seen that language and culture are...
... - 2012 ABBREVIATIONS CCC: Cross- cultural Communication VC: Verbal Communication V: Vietnam/ Vietnamese A: America/American H: hearer S: speaker FTA: face threatening act LIST OF TABLES Table 1: ... 2 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE ĐỖ THỊ PHƯƠNG THANH A CROSS- CULTURAL STUDY ON AMERICAN-VIETNAMESE VERBAL EXPRESSIONS ... culture as follows: A language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of a language; the two are intricately interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance...
... Drinking milk at meals is a standard practice in the United States It has a primary meaning of food and drink, at meal time It does not have any special connotation of social class, national group, ... other hand the dietitians complained that Latin Americans used too much sugar at meals It can be observed that the average Latin American student takes more sugar in his coffee than North Americans ... her book Language and Culture (199 8a: 30 that: + language expresses cultural reality; + language embodies cultural reality; + language symbolises cultural reality Kramsch’s presentation moves the...
... unique abilities of communicating through a native language clearly separate humans from all animals In 1994, in Time magazine, an article appeared titled „How man began‟ Within that article was ... emoticons As can be seen from many definitions shown above, paralanguage and body language are considered as NVC; however, object language and environmental language, which are very important and can ... appropriate use of silence/pauses and TFs is considerably important in communication and communicative language teaching/learning Cross- cultural interactants and language learners should be aware...
... 26 are Australian, are British and the rest is from English speaking world such as New Zealand, Canada, America, etc English is used as target language and its variants, namely American English, ... the researcher was always willing to assist the participants by giving oral instructions and explanation in Vietnamese to avoid any misunderstanding and ambiguity Afterwards, all the papers of ... questionnaire were collected carefully to ensure the quantity of data 2.5 Data analysis methods and procedures It was undeniable that data analysis was the process of ordering and extracting meaning...
... UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST – GRADUATE STUDIES - - HOÀNG THỊ MỴ ON THE ECONOMICALITY AND REDUNDANCY IN REQUESTING IN ENGLISH AACROSS – CULTURAL STUDY ... popularity of economicality and redundancy in requesting 22 3.2 The link between the addresser’s/ addressee’s gender and relative age and the use of lexico modal makers seen as redundancy ... PART B: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 Speech acts and classification of speech acts 1.2 Requesting as a speech act 1.3 Redundancy and...
... 2.5 Coding and data analysis Data were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively In the qualitative analysis, CR data was coded according to the strategies which are mainly based on Herbert‟s ... and to excel effectiveness of cross- cultural interaction As modern societies have become multilingual and multicultural, cross- cultural pragmatic is advantageous to speakers of various languages ... inappropriately (Tamanaha, 2003) As a result, the study of interlanguage pragmatics has been recognized as an important subfield of research in second language acquisition As they state, what has been...
... a major field in pragmatic analysis, i.e crosscultural pragmatics Cross- cultural pragmatics has attracted great concern from researchers since culturally coloured interaction styles create culturally ... a final goal in foreign language teaching and learning To be a successful cross- cultural communicator one should pay due attention to both correctness and appropriateness Cross- cultural pragmatics ... teachers and educators, the pendulum of English language teaching has swung to communicative approach Acquiring a new language means a lot more than the manipulation of syntax and lexicon Language...