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There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use
of English around the world. English as a medium of communication
is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse
speech communities who interact with each other in multilingual
contexts. The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its
implications has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and
English studies. Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua
Franca reflects the growing interest in achieving communicative
effectiveness in ELF situations and provides a comprehensive
account of recent empirical findings in the field of ELF. It
analyzes and interprets the author's own large corpus of naturally
occurring spoken interactions and focuses on identifying innovative
employments in the communicative strategies and pragmatics of
speakers involved in ELF interactions. In doing so, this book makes
a considerable contribution to the growing field of empirical
studies in ELF. It explores the usage of pragmatic strategies and
highlights their significant role in communicative effectiveness in
ELF interactions. In showing the processes of classifying
communication strategies involved in the identification of newly
observed communication strategies, this book will be of great
interest to English linguists, applied linguists, graduate and
undergraduate students of English, English Language Teaching
material developers and teachers of English.
There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use
of English around the world. English as a medium of communication
is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse
speech communities who interact with each other in multilingual
contexts. The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and its
implications has become a hot topic in applied linguistics and
English studies. Communicating Strategically in English as a Lingua
Franca reflects the growing interest in achieving communicative
effectiveness in ELF situations and provides a comprehensive
account of recent empirical findings in the field of ELF. It
analyzes and interprets the author's own large corpus of naturally
occurring spoken interactions and focuses on identifying innovative
employments in the communicative strategies and pragmatics of
speakers involved in ELF interactions. In doing so, this book makes
a considerable contribution to the growing field of empirical
studies in ELF. It explores the usage of pragmatic strategies and
highlights their significant role in communicative effectiveness in
ELF interactions. In showing the processes of classifying
communication strategies involved in the identification of newly
observed communication strategies, this book will be of great
interest to English linguists, applied linguists, graduate and
undergraduate students of English, English Language Teaching
material developers and teachers of English.
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.
This book presents a theoretical framework of Elicitation
Questions. Elicitation questions are the most important aspect of
second language learning ability. Understanding the purposes and
the conditions in which questions work best will help one master
their use. Questioning is not only one of the most important skills
in language learning, but also one of the main objectives of
learning English in our schools. Although there are a number of
definitions, it seems that the term 'question' has never been
clearly defined. With the changes occurring within the linguistic
theories, the term has been characterized in different ways.
'Questioning' here refers to the act of asking or putting or using
questions through which a good number of functions can be served.
The manuscript examines a framework in discourse characterization
both in English and Persian, and shed some light on the theoretical
description of Elicitations in the two languages. The result has
significant implications for those involving in pragmatics,
discourse analysis, contrastive analysis, pedagogy and translation.
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