A Pragmatic Analysis of the Interlanguage of Russian Speaking Students

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_789
dc.title	A Pragmatic Analysis of the Interlanguage of Russian Speaking Students
dc.contributor.author	Trubnikova Victoriya
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2017/1/mi-scusi-per-favore-analisi-pragmatica-dellinterli/
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this article is an investigation of the differences between the apology strategies used by Italian and Russian speakers as well as interlanguage apologies of Russians in Italian L2 environment. The data for the research was elicited by the written questionary Discourse Completion Task (DCT) involving 5 tokens with a short description of a situation which codifies basic information on social variables. The sample of the study consists of 10 students from each group. This research is supposed to identify the source of a pragmatic failure and the concept of appropriateness in light of politeness theories. The study has important implications for non-native speakers receiving instruction on speech acts.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 6 \| Issue 1 \| May 2017
dc.issued	2017-03-01
dc.dateAccepted	2017-04-20
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-11-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2280-6792/ELLE-6-1-17-4
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Apology
dc.subject	Apology
dc.subject	Italian L2
dc.subject	Italian L2
dc.subject	Politeness theories
dc.subject	Politeness theories
dc.subject	Pragmatic competence
dc.subject	Pragmatic competence
dc.subject	Speech act theory
dc.subject	Speech act theory

Research Article
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Victoriya Trubnikova Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia

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abstract

The purpose of this article is an investigation of the differences between the apology strategies used by Italian and Russian speakers as well as interlanguage apologies of Russians in Italian L2 environment. The data for the research was elicited by the written questionary Discourse Completion Task (DCT) involving 5 tokens with a short description of a situation which codifies basic information on social variables. The sample of the study consists of 10 students from each group. This research is supposed to identify the source of a pragmatic failure and the concept of appropriateness in light of politeness theories. The study has important implications for non-native speakers receiving instruction on speech acts.

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March 1, 2017

Accepted

April 20, 2017

Submitted

Nov. 24, 2016

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Keywords: Pragmatic competence • Italian L2 • Speech act theory • Apology • Politeness theories

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