Hoàng, Thị Xuân Hoa
Prior to any speech act performance, the speaker has to make two kinds of
judgments: the sociopragmatic and the pragmalinguistic ones. The former are social
and culture specific as they rest upon the speaker’s assessment of contextual factors
the importance of which differs from culture to culture. It is sociopragmatic decisions
that are the basis for the second kind of judgment of how to perform the speech act.
Sometimes, as a result of the sociopragmatic judgments lead to the decision to opt out
of the speech act by the speaker. Thus, investigations the opting out choice of a certain
speech act are within the field of pragmatic research. These investigations provide
useful and insightful information not only about the nature of the speech act, but also
about cultural values and beliefs of the speaker. Criticizing is a highly face -threatening
act, which is often opted out in face-to-face interactions. The factors leading the
decision to opt out might be vary with different cultures. This paper presents a study
on the factors affecting the choice not to perform the speech act of criticizing by
American people. The factors found include those related to the conditions for criticizing,
the seriousness of offence, the goal of criticizing, and contextual factors of social power and
distance. The information obtained by this study can be useful for cross-cultural research on
the weight of social and situational variables given by different cultures.
| Title: | Những yếu tố ảnh hưởng đến quyết định tránh thực hiện hành động phê bình của người Mỹ |
| Other Titles: | Factors leading to the decision to opt out of criticizing by Americans |
| Authors: | Hoàng, Thị Xuân Hoa |
| Keywords: | Ngôn ngữ học;Phê bình;Người Mỹ |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | H. : ĐHQGHN |
| Series/Report no.: | Tập 22;Số 4 |
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