Cross-cultural variation in speech act realization : Moroccan Arabic versus English
مقدم أطروحة جامعية
مشرف أطروحة جامعية
أعضاء اللجنة
al-Rashidi, Linda Stump
Bin Jelloun, Wail
Hottel, Nansi
al-Almi, Najia
Ouaouicha, Driss
الجامعة
جامعة الأخوين
الكلية
كلية الإنسانيات و العلوم الاجتماعية
دولة الجامعة
المغرب
الدرجة العلمية
ماجستير
تاريخ الدرجة العلمية
1998
الملخص الإنجليزي
This paper calls into question the adequacy of some universal approaches to language usage in a cross-cultural context especially the claim that indirectness is a universal strategy.
The paper argues that being primarily based-on the English language, what linguists like Paul Grice, John Searle, Brown and Levinson, Geoffrey Leech, and others have discovered is the cultural logic underlying English ways of verbal interaction.
Problems arise when the rules and principles regulating the English use of language assume a status of universality and are used to analyze the linguistic behavior of other speech communities.
These speech communities are erroneously represented through these approaches and their ways of interaction are not that appreciated.
For, the models in question embody the ethnocentric bias of a culture in which autonomy of the individual is the pivotal value.
They fail to accommodate cultures, like Moroccan culture, whose social organization is different from that of the West.
Comparing the realization of the speech acts of requesting, offering, and apologizing across Moroccan Arabic and English gives overwhelming empirical evidence against the alleged universality of these approaches.
The use of interrogative and conditional expressions to realize requests and offers in English is linked to the value of individualism in Anglo-American culture.
While the abundant use of the imperative in Moroccan Arabic as a realization of requests and offers is linked to the centrality of the interpersonal contract as the basic feature of social organization in Moroccan culture. The paper does not adopt a rejectionist attitude toward these approaches, but it suggests that the variation detected could be best accounted for within what is socially acceptable within a society.
The paper concludes by propounding that the study of cross-cultural variations in speech act realization does not only have a theoretical significance, but an applied one as well, especially with respect to foreign language teaching.
التخصصات الرئيسية
العلوم الاجتماعية (متداخلة التخصصات)
عدد الصفحات
95
قائمة المحتويات
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Chapter One : Introduction : Statement of problem and rationale.
Chapter Two : Methodology.
Chapter Three : Universal approaches to language use: problems and limitations.
Chapter Four : Moroccan Arabic vs. English.
Chapter Five : Conclusion
Conclusion.
References.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Guza, Khalid. (1998). Cross-cultural variation in speech act realization : Moroccan Arabic versus English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-592542
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Guza, Khalid. Cross-cultural variation in speech act realization : Moroccan Arabic versus English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University. (1998).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-592542
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Guza, Khalid. (1998). Cross-cultural variation in speech act realization : Moroccan Arabic versus English. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-592542
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
نوع البيانات
رسائل جامعية
رقم السجل
BIM-592542
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
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