Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answers the questions: Dovariety, speakerageandgender, contextformality,positionwithin the speaker turn, and the presence of abenefactor,intensifier, andreasoninfluence the choice betweenthankandthanks; and what implications do these findings have for the notion of pragmatic nativisation? In a multifactorial analysis, a conditional inference tree identifiesage,benefactor,intensifier,andvarietyas significant predictors while a random forest highlights the importance of variable interactions withvariety.
Source: World Englishes
DOI: 10.1111/weng.12517
Author: Nina Funke
Institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,600
OpenAlex ID: W3030375440