l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

This paper aims at assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab EFL learners tertiary level. The learners’ ability to use speech act apology was assessed through a specially designed discourse completion test that consisted nine items. study aimed answering following questions. (1) What strategies do participants express apology? (2) politeness in realizing this act? (3) pedagogical implications ...

This paper reports on a study of cultural differences in conversational structure and the expression of apology in German and Australian workplace telephone discourse. While the overall episodic structure of German and Australian telephone conversations was similar, there were differences in content or social orientation. This impacted on both whether and how topics representing high threat to ...

OBJECTIVE To explore patients' and family members' perceptions of Open Disclosure of adverse events that occurred during their health care. DESIGN We interviewed 23 people involved in adverse events and incident disclosure using a semi-structured, open-ended guide. We analyzed transcripts using thematic discourse analysis. SETTING Four States in Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensl...

YouTube apology videos have been identified by some as a genre, and such they unique recognizable features available for recontextualization parody. The three parodies analyzed are of two videos: Logan Paul’s “So Sorry,” response to his suicide forest controversy, Travis Scott's video the Astroworld Tragedy. videos, an audio-visual medium, extremely multimodal, with many opportunities linguisti...

The present study is an attempt to explicate the influence of gender and social status in selection English apology strategies different communicative situations. sample for consists forty-two EFL learners. Data were collected analyzed through Discourse Completion Tasks Interviews. Statistically, no significant difference observed use among gender; but result exhibits that both male female whil...

We describe a new approach for statistical modeling and detection of discourse structure for natural conversational speech. Our model is based on 42 ‘Dialog Acts’ (DAs), (question, answer, backchannel, agreement, disagreement, apology, etc). We labeled 1155 conversations from the Switchboard (SWBD) database (Godfrey et al. 1992) of human-to-human telephone conversations with these 42 types and ...

We describe a new approach for statistical modeling and detection of discourse structure for natural conversational speech. Our model is based on 42 ‘Dialog Acts’ (DAs), (question, answer, backchannel, agreement, disagreement, apology, etc). We labeled 1155 conversations from the Switchboard (SWBD) database (Godfrey et al. 1992) of human-to-human telephone conversations with these 42 types and ...

We describe an integrated approach for statistical modeling of discourse structure for natural conversational speech. Our model is based on 42 ~dialog acts’ (e.g., Statement, Question, Backchannel, Agreement, Disagreement, Apology), which were hand-labeled in 1155 conversations from the Switchboard corpus of spontaneous human-to-human telephone speech. We developed several models and algorithms...