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- Title
Where there is suffering, there is sympathy: The speech act Sympathize in learning Chinese as a foreign language.
- Authors
Wang, Zepeng; Mao, Yansheng; Long, Fangfang
- Abstract
The present paper aims to explore the performance of Sympathize as a speech act by advanced learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). We collected data from both 16 advanced CFL learners and 16 native speakers of Chinese through a DCT, and we then asked 10 native speakers of Chinese to rate the appropriacy of the DCTs provided by the two groups. The results of our analysis show that the language use of native speakers and advanced learners only differed significantly when they employed three strategies "Minimize the negativity of the events," "Analyze the negative events objectively," and "Look at problems from a positive perspective," while their behavior only marginally differed when it came to the two strategies of "Release the listeners' negative emotions" and "Encourage." However, learners received overall lower scores than native speakers regarding the appropriateness of their sympathizing expressions.
- Subjects
CHINESE as a second language; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); NATIVE language; SECOND language acquisition; PHILOSOPHY of language
- Publication
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 3, p493
- ISSN
0802-6106
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijal.12490