Requests in Informal Conversations: A Contrastive Study of English and German
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Analyzing Pragmatic Variation in English: New Developments in Contrastive, Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Pragmatics. ed. / Ronald Geluykens; Ilka Flöck. München: LINCOM Europa, 2024. p. 283.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Requests in Informal Conversations
T2 - A Contrastive Study of English and German
AU - Flöck, Ilka
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This chapter sets out to explore the realisation of naturally occurring conversational requests in two languages (English and German). More specifically, the paper focuses on the head act strategies of German German (GerG), American English (AmE), and British English (BrE) requests. The data were collected in manual bottom-up searches in a corpus pragmatic function-to-form approach. While the majority of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research on requests is based on experimental request data elicited by Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs), the present study uses non-elicited (hence naturally occurring) conversational data to show the realisation patterns of the speech act. While previous research shows cross-linguistic differences with German requests being more direct, the results of the present study indicate a different pattern. In conversational requests, the preference for more direct head acts in German L1 populations reported in studies based on experimental data is either less pronounced or is reversed in that the GerG requests were overall less direct than both English L1 groups.
AB - This chapter sets out to explore the realisation of naturally occurring conversational requests in two languages (English and German). More specifically, the paper focuses on the head act strategies of German German (GerG), American English (AmE), and British English (BrE) requests. The data were collected in manual bottom-up searches in a corpus pragmatic function-to-form approach. While the majority of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research on requests is based on experimental request data elicited by Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs), the present study uses non-elicited (hence naturally occurring) conversational data to show the realisation patterns of the speech act. While previous research shows cross-linguistic differences with German requests being more direct, the results of the present study indicate a different pattern. In conversational requests, the preference for more direct head acts in German L1 populations reported in studies based on experimental data is either less pronounced or is reversed in that the GerG requests were overall less direct than both English L1 groups.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783969392126
SP - 283
BT - Analyzing Pragmatic Variation in English
A2 - Geluykens, Ronald
A2 - Flöck, Ilka
PB - LINCOM Europa
CY - München
ER -