Publications

Publication details [#27094]

Nelson, Gayle L., Mahmoud Al-Batal, Joan Carson and Waguida El Bakary. 2002. Cross-cultural pragmatics: Strategy use in Egyptian Arabic and American English refusals. Applied Linguistics 23 (2) : 163–189.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | crosslinguistic perspective | pragmatics | refusing

Language as a subject

Arabic, Egyptian | English, American

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study discusses the results of a discourse completion test (DCT)-based analysis which shows a similar strategy use in American English and Egyptian Arabic refusals, but appears inappropriate for collecting sociopragmatic data.