Comparison of Linguistic Realization of Advice Giving Between English Language Learners and Native Speakers in Peer-To-Peer Online Forums
Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study investigated the pragmatics of advice giving between English native speakers\nin UK and nonnative speakers in Hong Kong in peer-to-peer advice forums. Forty eight and\nfifty two advice messages were respectively collected from an online forum in UK and an online\nforum in Hong Kong. The form and content of the advice messages were analyzed in terms of\ndiscursive moves. The results showed that English native speakers in UK and nonnative\nspeakers in Hong Kong perceived similar knowledge on the elements that consists an advice\ngiving event, but the syntactic realization and the sequencing of the discursive moves in the\nadvice messages showed some differences. Compared with native speakers, nonnative speakers\nin Hong Kong tended to offer directions and suggestions in more direct sentence type, and the\nadvice messages are organized in a straightforward way.
Author: Guo, Weiqi
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7018061978