Luận văn An investigation into refusal strategies to requests by american speakers of english and vietnamese learners of english

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into refusal strategies to requests by american speakers of english and vietnamese learners of english: ...here are many socio-cultural factors affecting the directness-indirectness of utterances. Nguyen (1998) [26] proposes 12 factors that, in his view, may affect the choice of directness and indirectness in communication: age, sex, residence, mood, occupation, personality, topic, place, communi... Figure 4.2. Comparisons on the number & frequencies of refusal strategies used by AEs & VEs. Similarities It is clear from figure 4.2 that the two most popular strategies used by both AEs and VEs were reasons and regret. They shared the same number of refusal strategy reason with 273 f...=140 vs. n=147), and the female used 159 compared with 172 This was true for both male and female AEs (n=159 vs. n=172). The reverse result was found for VEs. In refusing people in opposite gender, VEs used more strategies with n= 375 in total compared with n=350 for same gender. It was fo...