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Refusals In Arabic: Egyptian Native Speakers Vs. American Learners Of Arabic As A Foreign Language, Rasha M Abdel Moneim Badr

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The purpose of this thesis was to find out what were the types of strategies employed by American learners of Arabic as a second language and Egyptian native speakers of Arabic, to perform the speech act of refusal. Also, the present study investigated the similarities and/or the f differences between the most frequent strategies employed by both groups to perform refusals; in addition to investigating the relationship between the social status of the interlocutor and the initiating acts on one hand and the strategies chosen by both groups to perform refusals on the second hand. The study was conducted using …