The performance of speech acts varies widely across cultures due to differences in values,
communicative norms and traditions as well as politeness strategies. This can cause …

Given the linguistic complexity and the great impact a refusal can produce on the speaker's
and hearer's face, this speech act has been the object of numerous comparative works on …

This study investigated the refusal and complaint speech act strategies employed by
Jordanian undergraduate EFL learners. Refusal and complaint data were collected using a …

Abstract This study entitled “The Use of Commissive Speech Acts and its Politeness
Implication: A Case of Banten Gubernatorial Candidates Debate” examines the use of …

He article explores the speech act of refusal in British English and Russian and investigates
British and Russian refusal strategies from the perspective of cross-cultural communication …

This study intends to investigate the role of culture in the acquisition of pragmatic
competence by EFL learners. It investigated the refusal of requests and offers used by …

Despite the growing body of research on the importance of pragmatic competence in the
target language as well the introduction of teaching methodologies about the inclusion of …

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between Iranian advanced EFL
learners' meta-pragmatic awareness, its subscale features, and their general and specific …

This study is part of a larger research project aiming to gather and compare last-minute
cancellations in different languages. The corpus, collected through an online DCT, is being …

The aim is to investigate refusal strategies used by English and Serbian native speakers in
terms of two sociological variables: social distance and power. To this end, the participants …