A Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Nour Al Okl... more A Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Nour Al Okla entitled, "Motivational Influences on Adult Arab Learners of English in the UAE," submitted June 2015. Thesis advisor is Dr. Sara Cotterall. Soft and hard copy available.
Since the speech act of refusal is a face-threatening act, it is essential that some strategies b... more Since the speech act of refusal is a face-threatening act, it is essential that some strategies be used to soften the refusal to save the listener’s face. Although the domain of refusal strategies is one of the very important domains in the pragmatic aspect in English, none of the studies conducted about the English language in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have studied refusal strategies used by people in this region. This study aims to investigate the strategies that different people in Dubai use to refuse promotions by sales assistants in different shopping malls in Dubai. The data in this study was collected during field observations conducted in two shopping malls in Dubai. The findings in this study show that most participants chose to refuse the promotions non-verbally. They used different refusal strategies such as avoidance, hand gestures, and nodding their heads. Only two verbal refusal expressions were used. The reasons for these findings might be related to different fa...
A Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Nour Al Okl... more A Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Nour Al Okla entitled, "Motivational Influences on Adult Arab Learners of English in the UAE," submitted June 2015. Thesis advisor is Dr. Sara Cotterall. Soft and hard copy available.
Since the speech act of refusal is a face-threatening act, it is essential that some strategies b... more Since the speech act of refusal is a face-threatening act, it is essential that some strategies be used to soften the refusal to save the listener’s face. Although the domain of refusal strategies is one of the very important domains in the pragmatic aspect in English, none of the studies conducted about the English language in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have studied refusal strategies used by people in this region. This study aims to investigate the strategies that different people in Dubai use to refuse promotions by sales assistants in different shopping malls in Dubai. The data in this study was collected during field observations conducted in two shopping malls in Dubai. The findings in this study show that most participants chose to refuse the promotions non-verbally. They used different refusal strategies such as avoidance, hand gestures, and nodding their heads. Only two verbal refusal expressions were used. The reasons for these findings might be related to different fa...
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