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Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies

This paper analyses and upgrades taxonomies of strategies and structures for the speech act of suggesting based on existing taxonomies and classifications in the pragmatics research literature. Previous studies have focused mainly on linguistic structures used to perform the speech act of suggesting...

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Main Authors: Abolfathiasl, Hossein, Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah
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Language:English
Published: Australian International Academic Centre 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/1/27928.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/
http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/981
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spelling my.upm.eprints.279282016-03-07T00:22:24Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/ Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies Abolfathiasl, Hossein Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah This paper analyses and upgrades taxonomies of strategies and structures for the speech act of suggesting based on existing taxonomies and classifications in the pragmatics research literature. Previous studies have focused mainly on linguistic structures used to perform the speech act of suggesting. Thus, there seems to be a need to provide a more comprehensive set of taxonomies for structures as well as strategies that can be used in EFL/ESL classrooms and for research on the speech act of suggesting. To this end, the speech act of suggesting is defined first and the features of this speech act are discussed. Second, the most recent classifications proposed for structures and linguistic realization strategies for suggestions were analysed and contrasted and a more comprehensive taxonomy of structures and linguistic realization strategies is provided, based on previous taxonomies. Finally, taxonomy of politeness strategies in making suggestions are provided, based on recent studies in cross-cultural pragmatics research. Australian International Academic Centre 2013-11-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/1/27928.pdf Abolfathiasl, Hossein and Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah (2013) Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2 (6). pp. 236-241. ISSN 2200-3592; ESSN: 2200-3452 http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/981 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.6p.236
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description This paper analyses and upgrades taxonomies of strategies and structures for the speech act of suggesting based on existing taxonomies and classifications in the pragmatics research literature. Previous studies have focused mainly on linguistic structures used to perform the speech act of suggesting. Thus, there seems to be a need to provide a more comprehensive set of taxonomies for structures as well as strategies that can be used in EFL/ESL classrooms and for research on the speech act of suggesting. To this end, the speech act of suggesting is defined first and the features of this speech act are discussed. Second, the most recent classifications proposed for structures and linguistic realization strategies for suggestions were analysed and contrasted and a more comprehensive taxonomy of structures and linguistic realization strategies is provided, based on previous taxonomies. Finally, taxonomy of politeness strategies in making suggestions are provided, based on recent studies in cross-cultural pragmatics research.
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author Abolfathiasl, Hossein
Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah
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Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah
Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
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Abdullah, Ain Nadzimah
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title Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
title_short Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
title_full Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
title_fullStr Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
title_full_unstemmed Pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
title_sort pragmatic strategies and linguistic structures in making 'suggestions': towards comprehensive taxonomies
publisher Australian International Academic Centre
publishDate 2013
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/1/27928.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27928/
http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/981
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