Hiba Qusay Abdul Sattar

University of Science Malaysia | USM · Section of English Language Studies

This paper examines the speech act of criticism among Iranian native speakers of Persian. Making and taking criticism can be difficult since no one would like to be told that he or she is wrong. In fact, criticism is a very important speech act in people's daily life. More and more people view criticism as a panel from where they can improve their...

The present study is an attempt to examine how Iranian international students in Malaysia and Malay university students express gratitude. To this end, the data were collected from Iranian and Malay university students in Malaysia through an open-ended questionnaire in the form of a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and a follow-up semi-structured in...

Several studies have indicated that the range and linguistics expressions of external modifiers available in one language differ from those available in another language. The present study aims to investigate the cross-cultural differences and similarities with regards to the realization of request external modifications. To this end, 30 Iraqi and...

Politeness conventions vary across cultures and so is impoliteness and rudeness. In some cases, what is considered rude in one culture or a society is not necessarily rude or impolite in another. This cannot be explained unless more studies on the use of language functions in a specific culture are conducted. The aim of this paper is to investigate...

This paper examines intercultural communication of the speech act of requests in English between Malaysian and Iraqi postgraduates at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Asking for something is a speech act that is commonly used by people in almost all cultures. However, this speech act is very situation dependent in that speakers should know how...

Refusals, like other speech acts, occur in all languages. According to Searle (1969), all linguistic communication involves the production of speech acts, such as offering apologies, asking questions, making promises, or refusing. The speech act of refusal has been looked at by many researchers. However, in the Malaysian context, the study of refus...

A speech act is an action performed by means of language. We perform speech acts when we offer an apology, greeting, request, complaint, invitation, compliment, or refusal. Empirical studies on speech acts show that the same speech act is very likely to be realized quite differently across different cultures. The speech act of requesting is selecte...

The development of pragmatics rules for language learners is very important. Language learners must not only acquire the correct forms and sounds of the target language, but also the knowledge of how language is pragmatically used in the target culture (Lee, 2002). It is important to develop learners" pragmatic competence in the classroom so as to...

In the last two decades, many studies have been conducted to investigate speech act performance in general, and the speech act of refusal to suggestion in particular. This genus of research has focused on western languages (Beebe et al,1990), (Chen,1996), (Fe´lix-Brasdefer,2006). However, more recently a number of studies have been carried out in e...

In the last two decades, many studies have been conducted to investigate speech act performance by native speakers of Arabic in general, and the speech act of requests in particular. This genus of research has focused on particular speakers of Arabic variety and comparing their performance of requests in English with native speakers. El-Shazly (199...