A cross - cultural study on the economicality and redundancy in requesting in English and Vietnamese
This thesis was carried out to provide a cross –cultural comparison of speech behavior in English and Vietnamese in the act of requesting, with the focus on the popularity of redundancy and economicality in requesting; and the link between the addresser’s/ addressee’s gender and relative age and the...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations |
| Language: | English |
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University of Languages and International Studies
2017
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| Online Access: | http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/40027 |
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| Institution: | Vietnam National University, Hanoi |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This thesis was carried out to provide a cross –cultural comparison of speech behavior in English and Vietnamese in the act of requesting, with the focus on the popularity of redundancy and economicality in requesting; and the link between the addresser’s/ addressee’s gender and relative age and the use of lexico modal makers seen as redundancy – creating factors. A questionnaire was designed consisting of 3 situations to collect data from 100 students (50 from Vietnam and 50 from English –speaking countries) with the evenly distributed number of males and females. The collected data were categorized into 4 groups of communicative partner: same sex but younger, same sex but older, opposite sex but younger and opposite sex but older; and analyzed according to 14 types of lexico modal markers suggested by N.Quang and Blum-kulka |
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