Linguistics strategies for responding to admonish in Thai and native speakers’ motivational concerns “บทความเรื่องนี้ได้ถูกถอนออกจากวารสารฯ เนื่องจากการตีพิมพ์ซ้ำซ้อนของบทความ”

Abstract

                This research article aims to study linguistic strategies that Thai people adopted to respond to admonish, as well as studying native speakers’ motivational concerns in performing the act, using Emancipatory Pragmatics (EP) through Discourse Completion Test (DCT) for the Thai speakers sample survey, The 100 informants were Bachelor’s students from various faculties and years. Also, in-depth interviews were conducted with30 students out of the informants. 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 is found that Thai speakers place a priority on keeping relationship with the interlocutor. This linguistic behavior might be motivated by three sociocultural factors: 1. an interdependent view of self 2. Collectivism and 3. High context culture