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A Contrastive Study of Elicitation Questions in English and Persian Modern Plays (Paperback)
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Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 19.80 out of 20,
language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT A Contrastive Study of
Elicitation Questions in English and Persian Modern Plays By Janin
Jafari Questioning is one of the important skills in language
learning. Moreover, understanding the discourse function of
questions will help learners master the uses of questions. The
purpose of the present study was to verify the applicability of
Tsui's (1995) model of conversational analysis, specifically to the
different subclasses of 'Elicitation questions' (i.e., inform,
agree, commit, repeat and clarify) in English and Persian. This
study also intended to contrast the subcategories of 'Elicitation
questions' in English and Persian modern plays. To achieve the
objectives, three modern English plays and three modern Persian
plays were selected. In order to determine the frequency of each
subcategory of 'Elicitation questions' of each language 361
instances from the English plays and 337 instances from the Persian
plays were analyzed and compared. A Chi-square test was used to
determine whether the difference was statistically significant. The
results indicated that Tsui's characterization of the elicitation
regardless of its syntactic form is feasible. Furthermore, Tsui's
classification of 'Elicitation questions' into five subcategories
in terms of discourse functions of the utterances is applicable.
The findings also showed that first, both English and Persian texts
used more Elicit: Inform and Elicit: Clarify; second, English and
Persian texts used less Elicit: Commit and Elicit: Repeat
respectively; third, Persian texts used Elicit: Agree twice more
than those of English texts. The stated differences were shown to
be statistically significant.
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