Agreement and Disagreement: A Study of Speech Acts in Discourse and ESL/EFL Materials

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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Eloise
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa. Department of English as a Second Language.
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-15T00:53:23Z
dc.date.available2015-12-15T00:53:23Z
dc.date.issued1985
dc.description.abstractThe purpose was to formulate a description of the speech act agreement/disagreement and the rules of use under which it occurs in native speaker conversation. This was done by surreptitiously recording natural conversation, transcribing it and examining it for agreement/disagreement. It was found that it occurred only as a response related to a prior initiation move and it occurred on a scale of politeness from the most polite forms of agreement to the least polite forms of disagreement. The description was compared to two ESL/EFL textbooks to determine the degree to which the presentation matched that of native speaker use. The result was that the textbooks presented formulaic expressions which occurred infrequently in conversations among native speakers.
dc.format.digitaloriginreformatted digital
dc.format.extent233 pages
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/38616
dc.languageeng
dc.relation.ispartofOccasional Paper #5
dc.subjectspeech act theory
dc.subjectnatural conversation
dc.subjectdiscourse analysis
dc.subjectesl textbooks
dc.subjectefl textbooks
dc.subjectconversation analysis
dc.subjectspoken discourse
dc.subject.fastSpeech acts (Linguistics)
dc.subject.fastDiscourse analysis
dc.subject.fastConversation analysis
dc.titleAgreement and Disagreement: A Study of Speech Acts in Discourse and ESL/EFL Materials
dc.typeOccasional Paper
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