Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates

The purpose of the present study is to investigate into the possibility of pragmatic failure in the L2 production of Yemeni EFL university learners. It, in particular, tackles the L1 negative pragmatic transfer in the speech act of responding to compliments. The participants of the study are thirt...

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Main Authors:	Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad, Almansoob, Najeeb Taher, Alrefaee, Yasser
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14019/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14019/1/34484-116065-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-140192020-01-24T00:31:17Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14019/ Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad Almansoob, Najeeb Taher Alrefaee, Yasser The purpose of the present study is to investigate into the possibility of pragmatic failure in the L2 production of Yemeni EFL university learners. It, in particular, tackles the L1 negative pragmatic transfer in the speech act of responding to compliments. The participants of the study are thirty Yemeni learners of English representing the target group and two baseline groups: thirty Yemeni Arabic native speakers and thirty American English native speakers. The researchers used a Discourse Completion Task as to collect the relevant data based on six complimenting scenarios. Data were codified into compliment response formulas and analysed statistically via SPSS in terms of the overall frequency counts of the semantic formulas. The results revealed that pragmatic failure is highly evident in the learners’ L2 production. L1 negative pragmatic transfer occurred in the response strategies of 'Comment Acceptance', 'Comment History', 'Praise Upgrade', 'Return', 'No Acknowledgement', 'Offer', 'Promise' and 'Wish'. They nearly represent 50% of the leaners' response utterances. The learners also showed a tendency of positively assimilating their L2 norms in the realization of compliment responses in half of their response utterances. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14019/1/34484-116065-1-PB.pdf Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad and Almansoob, Najeeb Taher and Alrefaee, Yasser (2019) Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 25 (4). pp. 227-240. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1230
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description	The purpose of the present study is to investigate into the possibility of pragmatic failure in the L2 production of Yemeni EFL university learners. It, in particular, tackles the L1 negative pragmatic transfer in the speech act of responding to compliments. The participants of the study are thirty Yemeni learners of English representing the target group and two baseline groups: thirty Yemeni Arabic native speakers and thirty American English native speakers. The researchers used a Discourse Completion Task as to collect the relevant data based on six complimenting scenarios. Data were codified into compliment response formulas and analysed statistically via SPSS in terms of the overall frequency counts of the semantic formulas. The results revealed that pragmatic failure is highly evident in the learners’ L2 production. L1 negative pragmatic transfer occurred in the response strategies of 'Comment Acceptance', 'Comment History', 'Praise Upgrade', 'Return', 'No Acknowledgement', 'Offer', 'Promise' and 'Wish'. They nearly represent 50% of the leaners' response utterances. The learners also showed a tendency of positively assimilating their L2 norms in the realization of compliment responses in half of their response utterances.
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author	Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad Almansoob, Najeeb Taher Alrefaee, Yasser
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author_facet	Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad Almansoob, Najeeb Taher Alrefaee, Yasser
author_sort	Al-Ghamdi, Namiah Ahmad
title	Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates
title_short	Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates
title_full	Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates
title_fullStr	Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates
title_full_unstemmed	Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates
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publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
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Pragmatic failure in the realization of the speech act of responding to compliments among Yemeni EFL undergraduates

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