A comparative study on online advice-seeking strategies between Malaysian and Australian women
Advice discourse is common in our everyday life. As such, research on advice is diverse and covers advice-related communicative practices such as advice-seeking, advice-giving and reception to advice. Past research on advice has also examined various factors affecting advicerelated practices such...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18579/1/52934-178361-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18579/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1467 |
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| Summary: | Advice discourse is common in our everyday life. As such, research on advice is diverse and
covers advice-related communicative practices such as advice-seeking, advice-giving and
reception to advice. Past research on advice has also examined various factors affecting advicerelated
practices such as the relationship between advice and politeness, gender, and
characteristics of interlocutors. Although advice is a much-researched area, comparative
studies that attempt to compare advice-seeking strategies in two similar contexts are scarce.
The present study seeks to fulfill this gap, hence a comparative study that compares the
strategies used by women in Malaysia and Australia when they seek advice on infertility
treatment in a Malaysian online forum and in an Australian online forum is carried out. A total
of 100 advice-seeking messages from each forum are examined using Locher’s (2006) content
analysis method that involves analysis of the discursive moves, relational work, and linguistic
realisations of moves in the advice-seeking messages. The results show that although there is
homogeneity in many aspects in both forums, there are still variations in the women’s adviceseeking
strategies due to cultural backgrounds, specifically on the frequency and levels of
problem disclosure, as well as the use of local slangs and syntax constructions that are typical
of their cultural community. The study provides insights about how cultural elements shape
one’s advice-seeking strategies, subsequently contributing to our understanding of crosscultural
pragmatics. |
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