Saudi Politeness: Request and Apology in the Context of Study and Work at King Abdulaziz University: A Pragmatic Study

Autor/in	Farrag, Nahed Moussa
Titel	Saudi Politeness: Request and Apology in the Context of Study and Work at King Abdulaziz University: A Pragmatic Study
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 13 (2022) 1, S.300-312 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Farrag, Nahed Moussa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Pragmatics; Speech Acts; College Faculty; Correlation; Language Tests; Foreign Countries; Teaching Experience; Social Status; Syntax; Language Usage; Peer Relationship; Females; Single Sex Colleges; Saudi Arabia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pragmalinguistik; Sprechakt; Fakultät; Korrelation; Language test; Sprachtest; Ausland; Sozialer Status; Sprachgebrauch; Peer-Beziehungen; Weibliches Geschlecht; Saudi-Arabien
Abstract	The present study investigates the frequently used speech acts related to positive and negative politeness techniques employed in requests and apologies by faculty members at King Abdulaziz University. Social interaction on University Campus reflects Hejazi culture located in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. The significance of the study arises from its focus on university-life interaction between faculty members as it provides an investigation of positive and negative politeness strategies. The paper tries to answer two questions: (1) Is there a relationship between the faculty's years of experience and the request strategies employed?; and (2) Is there a relationship between the faculty years of experience and the apology strategies used? To answer these questions, a Discourse Completion Test was developed and given to 30 faculty members. The findings of the study show that social power, which is derived from having more years of experience, affects the request and apology strategies used among Saudi female faculty members. Faculty members of an older generation tend to use syntactically more extended sentences in requests compared to their younger colleagues, to alleviate the sense of their social power and save others' sense of face. In contrast, the more youthful faculty members tended to use syntactically longer sentences in apologies compared to their older colleagues to show more respect. The study was conducted in Women Campus, and it is recommended to implement it on a larger scale with more participants to get more complete results. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01