The Complexity of Pragmatic Competence Across Languages: An Analysis of Turkish ESL Students’ Advice-giving Strategies

Studies revealed that English as a second language (ESL) speakers and native (NES) often used different strategies to offer advice in English. Since these differences can cause cross-cultural misunderstandings misattribution of intent between ESL NES, it is important identify them. For this purpose, study analyzed the structural pragmatic advice-giving NES Turkish speakers. 18 20 students were recruited asked written given cases WCDT questionnaire. The analysis while tended use modal ‘would’, pronoun ‘I’, some other politeness features their advice, ‘should’ ‘you’ more. These results indicated employed competence construct discourses