Evaluating the appropriacy of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs): A case study of learners of Chinese and English
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Juliane House
Juliane House is Professor Emerita at the University of Hamburg, and Director of the PhD in Applied Linguistics at Hellenic American University in Athens. She is also Visiting Professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Dalian University of Foreign Languages. Her research interests involve contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness, English as a lingua franca and translation. She has published widely in these areas.
Dániel Z. Kádár is Qihang Chair Professor and Head of Research Centre at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, and Research Professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University, Athens. His research interests involve contrastive pragmatics, interactional ritual, linguistic politeness, applied linguistics and language aggression.
Abstract
This paper investigates the evaluation of ritual frame indicating expressions (RFIEs) in two groups of L2 learners: British English learners of Chinese and Mainland Chinese learners of English. RFIEs are expressions by means of which speakers confirm their awareness of rights and obligations in a particular standard situation. Previous research in applied linguistics has largely ignored the production and evaluation of such forms, despite the fact that they are pragmatically-loaded and, as such, are very important for the development of the (meta)pragmatic competence of L2 learners. In our study, we have conducted an experiment in which we exposed our learners to both authentic and constructed uses of RFIEs. The evaluation of their (meta)pragmatic competence has revealed notable linguacultural differences between the two groups of L2 learners.
About the authors
Juliane House is Professor Emerita at the University of Hamburg, and Director of the PhD in Applied Linguistics at Hellenic American University in Athens. She is also Visiting Professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Dalian University of Foreign Languages. Her research interests involve contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness, English as a lingua franca and translation. She has published widely in these areas.
Dániel Z. Kádár is Qihang Chair Professor and Head of Research Centre at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, and Research Professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also Visiting Professor at the Hellenic American University, Athens. His research interests involve contrastive pragmatics, interactional ritual, linguistic politeness, applied linguistics and language aggression.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Assessing pragmatic aspects of L2 communication: Why, how and what for
- Issues in the assessment of L2 pragmatics
- Assessing the L2 pragmatic awareness of non-native EFL teacher candidates: Is spotting a problem enough?
- Rater variation in pragmatic assessment: The impact of the linguistic background on peer-assessment and self-assessment
- Assessing pragmatic competence in oral proficiency interviews at the C1 level with the new CEFR descriptors
- Developing Pragmatic Competence in English Academic Discussions: An EAP Classroom Investigation
- Evaluating the appropriacy of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs): A case study of learners of Chinese and English
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Assessing pragmatic aspects of L2 communication: Why, how and what for
- Issues in the assessment of L2 pragmatics
- Assessing the L2 pragmatic awareness of non-native EFL teacher candidates: Is spotting a problem enough?
- Rater variation in pragmatic assessment: The impact of the linguistic background on peer-assessment and self-assessment
- Assessing pragmatic competence in oral proficiency interviews at the C1 level with the new CEFR descriptors
- Developing Pragmatic Competence in English Academic Discussions: An EAP Classroom Investigation
- Evaluating the appropriacy of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs): A case study of learners of Chinese and English
