A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children

"Spanish - English native speakers have their own rules of conversation and interaction. Their culture dramatically influences the way people establish a conversation and how people make requests and refusals. Requests and refusals are complex, face-threatening speech acts, which are commonly p...

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Autor: Sánchez Linares, Alma
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto RIAA-BUAP
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
Gramática comparada y general--Negación--Investigación
Bilingüismo en niños
Lenguaje y lenguas--Semántica
Español--Negaciones (Gramática)
Inglés--Negaciones (Gramática)
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spelling A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual childrenSánchez Linares, AlmaHUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTAGramática comparada y general--Negación--InvestigaciónBilingüismo en niñosLenguaje y lenguas--SemánticaEspañol--Negaciones (Gramática)Inglés--Negaciones (Gramática)"Spanish - English native speakers have their own rules of conversation and interaction. Their culture dramatically influences the way people establish a conversation and how people make requests and refusals. Requests and refusals are complex, face-threatening speech acts, which are commonly present in communicative interactions. These types of speech acts frequently occur in the family context and require high-level, sophisticated politeness strategies when used by bilingual children. The purpose of this study is two-fold: firstly, to describe the most salient characteristics of how bilingual children make refusals and requests in English and Spanish. Secondly, to investigate whether their speech acts were appropriate in both languages. This case study investigation analysed 463 speech acts, 220 requests and 243 refusals, of two Mexican-British children aged 10 and 12, who have been raised as bilinguals at home. The data was gathered in the family domain through two situational instruments for English and Spanish".Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de PueblaFLORES SALGADO, ELIZABETH; 250821Flores Salgado, Elizabeth2022-06-09T18:56:30Z2022-06-09T18:56:30Z2021-11masterThesisMaestríainfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesispdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12371/15898reponame:Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto RIAA-BUAPinstname:Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Pueblainstacron:BUAPenghttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0openAccessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorioinstitucional.buap.mx:20.500.12371/158982026-02-23T03:16:12Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
title A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
spellingShingle A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
Sánchez Linares, Alma
HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
Gramática comparada y general--Negación--Investigación
Bilingüismo en niños
Lenguaje y lenguas--Semántica
Español--Negaciones (Gramática)
Inglés--Negaciones (Gramática)
title_short A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
title_full A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
title_fullStr A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
title_full_unstemmed A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
title_sort A pragmatic analysis of requests and refusals as produced in Spanish and English: a case study of bilingual children
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sánchez Linares, Alma
author Sánchez Linares, Alma
author_facet Sánchez Linares, Alma
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv FLORES SALGADO, ELIZABETH; 250821
Flores Salgado, Elizabeth
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
Gramática comparada y general--Negación--Investigación
Bilingüismo en niños
Lenguaje y lenguas--Semántica
Español--Negaciones (Gramática)
Inglés--Negaciones (Gramática)
topic HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
Gramática comparada y general--Negación--Investigación
Bilingüismo en niños
Lenguaje y lenguas--Semántica
Español--Negaciones (Gramática)
Inglés--Negaciones (Gramática)
description "Spanish - English native speakers have their own rules of conversation and interaction. Their culture dramatically influences the way people establish a conversation and how people make requests and refusals. Requests and refusals are complex, face-threatening speech acts, which are commonly present in communicative interactions. These types of speech acts frequently occur in the family context and require high-level, sophisticated politeness strategies when used by bilingual children. The purpose of this study is two-fold: firstly, to describe the most salient characteristics of how bilingual children make refusals and requests in English and Spanish. Secondly, to investigate whether their speech acts were appropriate in both languages. This case study investigation analysed 463 speech acts, 220 requests and 243 refusals, of two Mexican-British children aged 10 and 12, who have been raised as bilinguals at home. The data was gathered in the family domain through two situational instruments for English and Spanish".
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