Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Realizations of oppositional speech acts in English: a contrastive analysis of discourse in L1 and L2 settings

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Intercultural Pragmatics

ISSN

1612-295X

e-ISSN

1613-365X

Svazek periodika

18

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

40

Strana od-do

163-202

Kód UT WoS článku

000629028100002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85102785904