Inspecting Pragmatic Analysis of Strategies Employed by Iranian EFL Learners in Realization of the Speech Act of Requests

The goal of the present report is to deal with the use of pragmatic strategies by Iranian EFL learners to fulfill the act of request. The analytical classification of request strategies suggested by Blum-Kulka & Olshtain (۱۹۸۴) and cross-cultural speech act realization patterns (CCSARP) coding manual (Blum-Kulka et al., ۱۹۸۹) were used to examine the corresponding features of pragmatic strategies employed by ۲۲ upper-intermediate Iranian EFL learners in performing the speech act of request. For this purpose, through conducting this descriptive research, the utterances produced by the participants were analyzed at both informal and formal situations under a Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT). The results revealed that from among nine strategies of requesting classified by Blum-Kulka & Olshtain (۱۹۸۴), Iranian EFL learners most frequently employed the query preparatory as a conventional indirect strategy of requesting in informal and formal situations. However, they used direct strategy of want statement at informal context. Keywords: discourse completion task, pragmatic competence, pragmatic strategies, speech act, request.

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discourse completion task , Pragmatic Competence , pragmatic , Strategies , speech act.request