Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English

This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the using of such strategies. Role-play inte...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2012
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/1/pp%2520711_725.pdf

id	ukm-4939
recordtype	eprints
spelling	ukm-49392016-12-14T06:37:21Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian, This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the using of such strategies. Role-play interactions taken from 10 American speakers and a perceptive questionnaire constructed based on the interactions were used to collect the required data. Results of the questionnaire showed that more indirect complaints were perceived as more polite by EFL learners. Furthermore, social variables of power and distance made a difference in the degree of politeness perceived; Iranians (irrespective of their genders) were more concerned about the social power of the complainee than the social distance between the interlocutors. Subjects' gender did not have significant relationship with how the participants assessed the politeness degree of complaints. Penerbit UKM 2012-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/1/pp%2520711_725.pdf Parisa Abdolrezapour, and Azizollah Dabaghi, and Zohreh Kassaian, (2012) Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 12 (2 (spe). pp. 711-725. ISSN 1675-8021 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	Universiti Kebangasaan Malaysia
building	UKM Institutional Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English
description	This study aims to examine how Iranian EFL learners perceive complaining utterances produced by Americans in 4 asymmetrical situations. The main focus of the study is on perceptive data elicited from Iranian informants (male vs. female) with respect to the using of such strategies. Role-play interactions taken from 10 American speakers and a perceptive questionnaire constructed based on the interactions were used to collect the required data. Results of the questionnaire showed that more indirect complaints were perceived as more polite by EFL learners. Furthermore, social variables of power and distance made a difference in the degree of politeness perceived; Iranians (irrespective of their genders) were more concerned about the social power of the complainee than the social distance between the interlocutors. Subjects' gender did not have significant relationship with how the participants assessed the politeness degree of complaints.
format	Article
author	Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian,
spellingShingle	Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian, Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
author_facet	Parisa Abdolrezapour, Azizollah Dabaghi, Zohreh Kassaian,
author_sort	Parisa Abdolrezapour,
title	Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
title_short	Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
title_full	Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
title_fullStr	Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
title_full_unstemmed	Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English
title_sort	iranian efl learners' realization of complaints in american english
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2012
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4939/1/pp%2520711_725.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T19:42:56Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T19:42:56Z
_version_	1777405711511191552

Iranian EFL learners' realization of complaints in American English

Similar Items