Luận văn A study on verbal responses to directives in english and vietnamese conversation

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study on verbal responses to directives in english and vietnamese conversation: ...research will provide learners with English syntactic knowledge and pragmatic experience that will certainly facilitate their English language learning and interpreting English responses to directives into Vietnamese and vice versa. 1.6. ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY Chapter one deals with ...directly by giving a presupposition bringing a contrary meaning to the act suggested in the directive. (c) Giving an utterance getting S1 to do something (d) Evading S1’s directive 4.2.3. Socio-cultural Factors Affecting Directive Responses in Vietnamese 4.2.3.1. Gender Effects Table...9 Indirect Refusing 101 42.6 254 45.0 62 53.0 Total 237 100 564 100 117 100 4.1.3.3. Social Status Effects Table 4.3 Occurrences of Responses to Directives of People at Different Social Status in English SOCIAL STATUS Higher Equal Lower Directive Responses Occ. % Occ. % Occ. % ...