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A Cross-Cultural Study Of Irish And Egyptian Expressions Of Sympathy With Reference To Gender, Anne Abdel Moneim Hassan
A Cross-Cultural Study Of Irish And Egyptian Expressions Of Sympathy With Reference To Gender, Anne Abdel Moneim Hassan
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This study investigates the cross-cultural pragmatic differences in realizing the speech act of sympathy. Specifically it examines: (1) the similarities and differences in strategies used for expressing sympathy by both males and females in the Egyptians and Irish groups and (2) the kinds of pragmatic failure expected to occur among the Egyptian male and female EFL learners when expressing sympathy in the target language.
Two types of data were collected: spontaneous and elicited. Spontaneous data were collected by audiotape recording and note taking. Elicited data were collected by a ten-item discourse completion task (DCT). Subjects of the elicited data were …