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An Investigation of directive speech acts in L2 learners’ e-mails /
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Toraman, Mediha
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This study aims to find out and analyze the directive speech acts used by Turkish speakers of English while making a request or suggestion in their e-mails to their instructors. Data were collected by asking students to write e-mails to their Turkish instructors regarding certain exercises they had done. A group of these students were also contacted again regarding the e-mails they had sent to find out the reasons for their use of certain patterns of speech acts. A questionnaire which includes samples from the e-mails was evaluated by two native speakers regarding the appropriateness and politeness of the speech acts. The results show that the participants mainly resort to direct strategies in their e-mails and eliminate the opening and closing forms most of the time. The participants also have a tendency to use inclusive pronouns in their e-mails while making use of a form of a directive speech act.
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Speech acts (Linguistics).
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Electronic mail messages.
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English language
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English language
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23616
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M. Toraman, “An Investigation of directive speech acts in L2 learners’ e-mails /,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2014.
