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Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse

The article aims to demonstrate a consistent methodology for conducting cross-cultural research of verbal communication behaviour and identifying its peculiarities in different language cultures. First of all, the author discusses the problem of defining a basic unit of communication crucial f...

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Main Author: Kotorova, Elizaveta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16413/1/44390-149862-1-PB.pdf
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https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1372
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spelling my-ukm.journal.164132021-04-19T01:35:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16413/ Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse Kotorova, Elizaveta The article aims to demonstrate a consistent methodology for conducting cross-cultural research of verbal communication behaviour and identifying its peculiarities in different language cultures. First of all, the author discusses the problem of defining a basic unit of communication crucial for the analysis of communicative behaviour and proposes her own interpretation of such a unit called speech behaviour pattern (SBP). The illocutionary content and general organization of any SBP is considered universal, while their actual realization in a language is culturally conditioned and therefore may vary significantly in different languages. Utterances that constitute a certain SBP are organized into a field with a prototypical centre and a gradationally formed periphery, which is referred to as communicative-pragmatic field (CPF). The proposed methodology of contrastive analysis includes the following four major components: 1) definition of illocutionary purpose, 2) description of structural forms of SBP (i.e., their lexical and grammatical characteristics), 3) identifying communicative-pragmatic factors, 4) description of the structure and hierarchy of the communicative-pragmatic field that includes utterances implementing SBP. The presented approach is then consistently applied to the analysis of the SBP of INVITATION in the Russian and German discourse. The language data are taken from the existing Russian and German corpora. The proposed methodology helps to identify the main similarities and differences in the implementation of the SBP INVITATION in Russian and German driven by grammatical and communicative-pragmatic factors. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16413/1/44390-149862-1-PB.pdf Kotorova, Elizaveta (2021) Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse. GEMA ; Online Journal of Language Studies, 21 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 1675-8021 https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1372
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description The article aims to demonstrate a consistent methodology for conducting cross-cultural research of verbal communication behaviour and identifying its peculiarities in different language cultures. First of all, the author discusses the problem of defining a basic unit of communication crucial for the analysis of communicative behaviour and proposes her own interpretation of such a unit called speech behaviour pattern (SBP). The illocutionary content and general organization of any SBP is considered universal, while their actual realization in a language is culturally conditioned and therefore may vary significantly in different languages. Utterances that constitute a certain SBP are organized into a field with a prototypical centre and a gradationally formed periphery, which is referred to as communicative-pragmatic field (CPF). The proposed methodology of contrastive analysis includes the following four major components: 1) definition of illocutionary purpose, 2) description of structural forms of SBP (i.e., their lexical and grammatical characteristics), 3) identifying communicative-pragmatic factors, 4) description of the structure and hierarchy of the communicative-pragmatic field that includes utterances implementing SBP. The presented approach is then consistently applied to the analysis of the SBP of INVITATION in the Russian and German discourse. The language data are taken from the existing Russian and German corpora. The proposed methodology helps to identify the main similarities and differences in the implementation of the SBP INVITATION in Russian and German driven by grammatical and communicative-pragmatic factors.
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author Kotorova, Elizaveta
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Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
author_facet Kotorova, Elizaveta
author_sort Kotorova, Elizaveta
title Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
title_short Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
title_full Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
title_fullStr Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
title_full_unstemmed Methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of INVITATION in German and Russian discourse
title_sort methodology of cross-cultural description of speech behaviour: a case study of invitation in german and russian discourse
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2021
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16413/1/44390-149862-1-PB.pdf
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