กลวิธีทางภาษาในการยุติการสนทนาของผู้พูดภาษาไทย (Linguistic Strategies Used for Terminating in Thai Interactions)
Keywords:
Terminating interactions, Speech act, Pragmatics, Interaction in Thai societyAbstract
Terminating interactions is a speech act which might harm the relationships between interlocutors. It is one of interesting topics in pragmatics studies. The aim of this research is to investigate linguistic strategies used to terminate interactions in Thai and analyze the relation between linguistic strategies and socio – cultural factors. The data were collected using a discourse completion test (DCT) and in-depth interviews. The participants were 180 native speakers of Thai (150 for the DCT and 30 for the in-dept interviews). The notion of speech act is adopted as an analytical framework. The results reveal that linguistic strategies used to terminate interactions in Thai can be classified into two groups: 1) direct strategies which are expressing the needs of the speakers and ordering and
2) mitigating strategies which are giving reason; promising; focusing on listeners’ feelings; apologizing and asking. It is proposed that the notion of ‘face’, /Khwaam kreng jai/ (‘considerateness’) and interpersonal orientation are socio – cultural factors that might be related upon strategy selection.
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