Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2021-2002" target="_blank" >10.1515/ip-2021-2002</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings
Original language description
This paper presents the results of a study seeking insights into how speakers express oppositional stance in an online genre (businesses' responses to negative customer reviews on TripAdvisor). The research is contrastive, exploring the differences between the practices of speakers in two types of setting - L1 English-speaking countries and countries where English is L2 - when performing oppositional speech acts (e.g. disagreement, criticism of the review/reviewer, etc.). Although there exists a large body of work concerned with contrastive differences in speech act realizations, oppositional speech acts remain under-researched especially in contexts of non-politeness or impoliteness. This paper presents the results of a mixed-method qualitative/quantitative analysis revealing substantial differences along two principal dimensions of variation: the (in)directness with which opposition is expressed, and the downgrading (mitigation) or upgrading (aggravation) of oppositional speech acts. Some of these differences can be traced to well-known tendencies related to L1 versus L2 language use, while others represent new empirical findings that open up potential avenues for future research.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Intercultural Pragmatics
ISSN
1612-295X
e-ISSN
1613-365X
Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
40
Pages from-to
163-202
UT code for WoS article
000629028100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102785904