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Variability of refusal in L2: evidence of L1 pragmalinguistic transfer and learner's idiosyncratic usage
Author(s) -
Wijayanto Agus
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12081
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , competence (human resources) , negative transfer , first language , social psychology , philosophy
This study investigates pragmalinguistic competence of Javanese learners of English in I ndonesia as compared with native speakers of B ritish E nglish when realizing refusal strategies. The research data was obtained by means of a series of discourse completion tasks. R efusal strategies by native speakers of J avanese were also considered so as to observe whether or not the realization of refusal by the learners was informed by the Javanese language. The three groups of speakers broadly used similar types of semantic formulae and adjuncts of refusal. Nevertheless the wording of those phrased by the learners and the native J avanese speakers was more alike than either to that of the native speakers of B ritish E nglish suggesting L 1 pragmalinguistic transfer.