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Boonsuk, Yusop; Ambele, Eric A. – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This paper discusses the commonly realised social speech act of refusal strategies in English among university students in the Southern part of Thailand, in explaining how they say 'no' to request and the effects of this speech act on the hearer's face. Using Discourse Completion Test (DCT) to collect oral data in naturally-occurring situations,…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Speech Communication, Classification
Ambele, Eric A.; Boonsuk, Yusop – Arab World English Journal, 2018
Silence as a communicative act in face-to-face spontaneous interaction has been under-investigated in linguistic politeness research in Thailand. With the recent increase in the influx of foreign students gaining admission into Thai universities yearly, the result is that such universities will be a coexistence of cultures. This study therefore…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Interpersonal Communication, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Ambele, Eric A.; Boonsuk, Yusop; Buddharat, Chamaiporn – Arab World English Journal, 2018
In examining how English as a second language (ESL) learners process English formulaic expressions in a nonnative English context, this study aims to investigate the strategies that learners use and how first language (L1) culture and conceptual knowledge could influence the use of the strategies. This study is guided by the research question of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, French, Native Language, Second Language Learning