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Compliment Responses of Thai and Punjabi Speakers of English in Thailand |
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| Creator | Sukchai Sachathep |
| Title | Compliment Responses of Thai and Punjabi Speakers of English in Thailand |
| Publisher | สถาบันภาษา จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย |
| Publication Year | 2557 |
| Journal Title | PASAA : a journal of language teaching and learning |
| Journal Vol. | 47 |
| Page no. | 33_60 |
| Keyword | variational pragmatics,speech acts,complimentresponses,Tran's Continuum Hypothesis |
| ISSN | 2287-0024 |
| Abstract | This variational pragmatics (VP) study investigates thesimilarities and differences of compliment responses (CR)between Thai and Punjabi speakers of English in Thailand,focusing on the strategies used in CR when the microsociolinguisticvariables are integrated into the DiscourseCompletion Task (DCT). The participants were 20 Thai and 20Punjabi students selected based upon the results of an Englishlanguage test. The results of the study revealed that despite thesimilarities of the CR strategies, there were also markeddifferences between the two groups of participants. The variablesincorporated into the DCT were shown to be an important factorin determining the CR strategies of the participants. Therefore, itcan be concluded that the participants took micro-sociolinguisticcues into consideration in responding to a compliment.Furthermore, both groups of participants transferred thepragmatic norms of their native language when interacting inEnglish. The findings lead to the pedagogical implication thatpragmatics need to be integrated into English languageclassrooms in order to facilitate intercultural communicationand to enable the learners to use socially appropriate language. |
