8. ACTIVITY…..
SPEECH ACTS
Proposed by John
Langshaw Austin in 1962
• moments in which
statements occur in the
communicative act within a
given context
group of utterances with a
single interactional function
10. • CULTURAL AWARENESS will
empower speakers to:
Use the target language
according to how they
understand the context of
use
Make cultural adjustment
Assert their own cultural
uniqueness
SPEECH ACTS AND IDENTITIES
SITUATION 1:
AMERICAN VS. EGYPTIAN
11. SITUATION 2:
SPEECH ACTS AND APPROPRIATENESS
• Appropriate way of
complaining in a certain
context
1. Depersonalization of the
problems
2. Use of questions
3. Acceptance of partial
responsibility
4. Use of pronoun “we”
5. Use of mitigators
AMERICAN VS. KOREAN
12. • Acceptance of partial
responsibility
“ Uh, I know that a lot of
the problems are mine,..,”
“Uh, I am wondering
whether it was just lack of
explanation on my part of
if you have overlooked a
few things which I had
presented
13. Depersonalization of the problem
Transferring the blame
from the person to the
problem
Use of question
“ I’d like any advice you could
give me of the problems I have.”
“Do you have a minute so that
we could go over the paper
together?”
14. Use of pronoun “we”
To indicate that both parties
share the blame
“I know we have different point of
view on this subject.”
To negotiate the problem
“ I hope that we could sit down and
discuss the paper.”
15. Use of mitigators
Maybe/ just / a little/ kind of/
perhaps/
“ I think uh it’s just in my opinion
maybe the grades was a little
low.”
16. COMPONENTS AMERICANS KOREAN
Explanation of
Purpose
“ I just came by to see if I
could talk about my
paper.”
“I have something to
talk to you about my
paper.”
Complaint “ I think, uh , it’s my
opinion maybe the grade
was a little low.”
“I’m little bit
disappointed in my
grade.”
Justification “I put a lot of time and
effort.”
“ I spent a lot of
time to do research
paper.”
Request “I would appreciate it if
you would consider my
grade.”
“I honestly ask you
to reconsider my
paper.”
17. • Transfer of pragmatic
competence
• Cultural Awareness
• “Have you thought about
reading this book.”
• “Haven’t you thought about
reading this book?”
SITUATION 3:
SPEECH ACTS AND
PRAGMATIC TRANSFER
AMERICAN VS. SPANIARDS
18. Unique negotiating strategies
John L. Graham
Treaties, trade agreement,
education, media,
transnational work, business
negotiations.
CULTURAL
RESPECT/AWARENESS
SITUATION 4:
SPEECH ACTS AND INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNICATION
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
31. • Vary from culture to
culture
• The forcible imposition of
other people’s cultural
norms upon another.
• BENTAHILA AND DAVIES
-not to restrict the learner’s
freedom to make their mark
on the language
SPEECH ACTS AND CULTURAL
IMPERIALISM
SITUATION 5:
BRITISH AND MORROCAN
32. BRITISH ENGLISH MOROCCAN ARABIC
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