Cross-cultural pragmatics of refusal to invitation among Malays and Germans

• Main Authors: Mohd Jalis, Farhana Muslim, Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan, Abdul Halim, Hazlina, Bukhardt, Jürgen Martin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Persatuan Linguistik Malaysia 2020
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88307/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88307/; https://plm.org.my/ejurnal/index.php/jurnallinguistik/article/view/172/151

This present study on cross-cultural pragmatics aims to investigate the pragmatic behaviours through the refusal speech act uttered by the Malay and German native speakers when receiving invitations from different levels of interlocutors. In this particular study, 15 native speakers of Malay and 15...