Cross-Cultural Variation in the Linguistic Politeness of Advice-Giving Speech Acts

Chun Moon-Young (전문영)

Cross-Cultural Variation in the Linguistic Politeness of Advice-Giving Speech Acts

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2010, 11(2), pp.235-253
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

Chun Moon-Young ¹

¹고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to investigate cross-cultural differences in the speech act of advice between Canadian English speakers (CESs) and Korean speakers (KSs) and to provide interpretations of the differences not only in terms of individualism and collectivism but also horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism. Thirty-five CESs and thirty-five KSs participated in this study. The questionnaire used in this research consisted of eight different situations in which participants were asked to choose one of the four strategies of advice: bald-on-record (BOR), on-record with redress (ORR), off record (OFF), and not doing face-threatening acts (NOT) strategies. Results indicate that in the impact of social distance, relative power, and the seriousness of advice on politeness strategies, there was in general a significant difference between CESs and KSs, and that the concept of politeness in Korean culture should be interpreted very differently from that in Canadian culture. The results of this study imply that the sociopragmatic conventions of advice-giving speech acts in English-speaking cultures should constitute an integral part of the EFL curriculum in order to facilitate intercultural communications.

KEYWORDS

advice/politeness strategies/cultural differences/sociopragmatics

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