Posted: September 14th, 2015

Non-native Saudi and native Irish speakers

A cross-cultural study of speech act realization patterns (apologies) by Saudi and Irish females

This thesis investigates the realization patterns of the speech act of apology employed by non-native Saudi and native Irish English females, by using 10 different social situations. Moreover, it examines the differences and similarities between these two groups in terms of apology strategies. The study also investigates the influence of the culture on the ways in which each group realizes their apologies. Additionally, this study will be based on western studies. However, in the last two decades, many studies have been conducted to investigate speech act performance in general, and apology speech act in particular. But most of these studies have focused on western languages. Also, more recently, a number of studies have been carried out in eastern languages, with only a few in Arabic language, so research on apologies made by native Saudi Arabic speakers or Arabic learners of English can be considered scarce, and that is why I’m interested in conducting this research.

Research questions:
1- Which apology strategies are used by Saudi and Irish participants?
2- Do Saudi and Irish English participants vary in terms of apology strategies if so,why?
3- How do the participants realize their apology strategies with regards to the specific language (words, phrases) they use?

Purpose of the study:
This study aims at finding the common differences and similarities between the apology strategies used by non-native Saudi and native Irish speakers, in different social situations. Also , it aims to find out how exactly the participants use language to realize their apology strategies and what is the influence of the two cultures.
Participants in the study:
15 Irish students in UCC and
15 Saudi students in Cork.
Methodology:
In this study, the DCT (Discourse completion Task),(questionnaire will be used and it consists of ten apology situations constructed specifically to elicit an apology in English language).
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