The Asking for the Return in Thai: A Study of Linguistic Strategies and Native Speakers’ Motivational Concerns
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Jun 3, 2017
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linguistic strategy the asking for the return of a borrowed item in Thai native speaker’ motivational concern language and culture emancipatory pragmatics
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This research article aims to study linguistic strategies that Thai people adopted to express asking for the return of a borrowed item, as well as to study native speakers’ motivational concerns while performing the act. The results indicate that Thai speakers adopted mitigating strategies more frequently than bold-on record strategies. An analysis of native speaker’ motivational concerns reveals that there are two types of motivational concerns: 1) Motivational concerns relating to the purpose of conversation. 2) Motivational concerns relating to the context of conversation. It found that Thai speakers place a priority on keeping relationship with the interlocutor. This linguistics behavior might be motivated by three sociocultural factors: 1) an interdependent view of self, 2) Collectivism, and 3) High context culture.
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Ongwuttiwat, S. (2017). The Asking for the Return in Thai: A Study of Linguistic Strategies and Native Speakers’ Motivational Concerns. Journal of Cultural Approach, 18(33), 56–68. Retrieved from https://so02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/cultural_approach/article/view/88525
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