Contrastive Studies as Methodology: An example with the pragmatics of apology and thanks

Abstract

Contrastive studies can be said to be one of the important methodologies to discover the universality and unique of languages and or language education. Nevertheless, if the objects of comparison are not chosen carefully, the exercise will just simply become a list of similarities and differences. This paper introduces examples of typological classification at the pragmatics level, and argues for contrastive methodology in contrastive studies that analyze speech acts set of apology and thanking.