Effect of Gender on Politeness Strategies in Greetings of Native Speakers of Persian; English and EFL learners

dc.creator	Zahra Gharaghani
dc.creator	Abbas Eslami Rasekh
dc.creator	Azizollah Dabaghi
dc.creator	Iman Tohidian
dc.date	2011-09-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:09:40Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:09:40Z
dc.identifier	1305-9076
dc.identifier	1305-905X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e924dc583e7348cea230e0a44938de00
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13008
dc.description	As a cross-cultural study investigating expressions of greeting in Iran, this study investigates politeness strategies that native Persian, English and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners employ for greetings in opposite gender contexts. Considering gender as a variable, Persian EFL learners' politeness and formality vary according to the situational context. How formality increases in different gender greetings in Persian is a cultural specific phenomenon. Forty-six (female and male) EFL learners divided into two groups participated in the present study. The first group included 30 undergraduate EFL learners in Isfahan University with an age range of 21-24. The second group of participants included 16 university students- 8 Persian EFL learners in Isfahan University and 8 Native American English students studying Medical Laboratory Technology at Dalton State College in Dalton, Georgia, USA. Findings of data including responses from an open-ended Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and a Dramatic Written Discourse Completion Task (DWDC) show that gender has a significant effect on the degree of formality in Persian greetings. This study presents that EFL learners transfer Persian style of greeting in different situations to their EFL performance. The results of the Chi-square test also suggest that EFL learners use inappropriate politeness expressions in their English responses. Since the social norms of politeness are believed to be universal by EFL learners, L1 pragmatic norms are clearly observed in EFL performances.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turskish
dc.publisher	World Education, Science, Research and Counseling Center
dc.relation	http://www.world-education-center.org/index.php/cjes/article/view/213/pdf_56
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-9076
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-905X
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences , Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 93-117 (2011)
dc.subject	Contrastive pragmatics
dc.subject	inter-language pragmatics
dc.subject	speech act of greeting
dc.subject	politeness
dc.subject	gender
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Effect of Gender on Politeness Strategies in Greetings of Native Speakers of Persian; English and EFL learners
dc.type	article