Interlanguage Politeness in Contexts

SUH JAE SUK (서재석)

Interlanguage Politeness in Contexts

Modern English Education
Abbr : MEESO
2013, 14(4), pp.1-19
Publisher : The Modern English Education Society
Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Language Teaching

SUH JAE SUK ¹

¹인하대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper looked into attitudes of learners toward politeness in different learning contexts. Korean learners of both EFL and ESL as subjects participated in a study in which data were collected by means of attitude scale designed to view politeness as a combination of three components, cognitive, affective and behavioral. Given the attitude scale, subjects in both groups were instructed to read statements of each component, and respond to them in terms of a five-point scale. In spite of no statistically significant difference between two learner groups in individual components of the attitude scale, an in-depth look at responses of both groups in each component of the scale showed that there were some clear differences between the groups in their attitude toward politeness in language use. The overall findings of the study indicated that contexts for L2 learning indeed made difference in the development of L2 pragmatic knowledge of politeness.

KEYWORDS

politeness, pragmatic competence, L2 pragmatics

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