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Mitigated Request Speech Acts in Learner Discourse

Autoři: Huschová Petra

Rok: 2019

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Mitigated Request Speech Acts in Learner Discourse	This paper is concerned with the incidence and usage of directive speech acts in the Corpus of Czech Students’ Spoken English, particularly with requests produced by Czech EFL undergraduate students in role-play tasks. It aims to investigate request modifications, i.e. elements that are added to the request head act to mitigate its imposition (Reiter, 2000), focusing on internal modifiers within the request head act. Accordingly, the analysis attempts to identify syntactic as well as lexical devices that soften the illocutionary force of requests and discusses, on the basis of context in which the exchanges take place, the ways internal downgraders are employed by non-native speakers in informal interaction. The findings indicate that the learners seem to rely on indirectness in performing speech acts, they prefer syntactic mitigating devices and tend to use a limited range of lexical internal modifiers. Finally, the paper discusses the participants’ linguistic and pragmatic competence in making requests and tentatively evaluates their ability to communicate appropriately.	directive speech acts; Corpus of Czech Students' Spoken English; request modifications; internal downgraders