The Responding to Refuse a Request in Thai: A Study of Linguistics Strategies and Native Speakers’ Motivational Concerns
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This research article aims to study linguistic strategies that Thai people adopted to respond to refuse a request, as well as to study native speakers’ motivational concerns while performing the act. The results indicate that Thai speakers adopted mitigating strategies more frequently than bold-on record strategies. An analysis of native speaker’ motivational concerns reveals that there are two types of motivational concerns-1)motivational concerns relating to the purpose of conversation 2) motivational concerns relating to the context of conversation. It found that Thai speakers place a priority on keeping relationship with the interlocutor. This linguistics behavior might be motivated by three sociocultural factors: 1. an interdependent view of self 2. Collectivism and 3. High context culture.
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