Papers by David Rodríguez Velasco
RLA. Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada, 2020
The speech act of disagreement is an area that has received scant attention in the field of inter... more The speech act of disagreement is an area that has received scant attention in the field of interlanguage pragmatics. However, in academic communication the strategies employed in this act of speech precede the development of an argument, a textual genre that is considered central to scholastic positioning. The less equitable the power relationship between the parties (between peers, between teacher and group of students, etc.), the stronger the illocutive intensity of this act. This study aims to investigate the strategies used in an unequal situation (student/lecturer) by Chinese learners of Spanish as a second language in order to perform the speech act of disagreement in their second language. Data relating to 149 Chinese university students were gathered by means of a pedagogical framework-based task in which they had to write an email to their lecturer expressing their disagreement. To identify their sociopragmatic knowledge in a digital environment and its adequacy in an academic Spanish context, the microstructure of their writings was examined for pragmatic moves related to politeness and level of directness. Our results suggest that the Chinese students analysed in the study did not adjust to an appropriate register or manner in academic Spanish.
Revista Nebrija De Lingüística Aplicada a La Enseñanza De Lenguas, 2019
The current study investigates the use and function of the pragmatic moves related to politeness ... more The current study investigates the use and function of the pragmatic moves related to politeness in the written form. It analyses a corpus written by English-speaking American students and native Spanish students who participated in the first task of the writing skills of the University of Antonio Nebrija's Project: Proyecto de Examen Multinivel de Certificación del Español Académico. In order to recognise the key text features of both sources, the communicative strategies used in the heading, body and closing sequence of their emails were identified. Therefore, the formulas used to address the teacher, the illocutionary force of their speech acts and the mitigating and emphasizing elements used in their messages were analysed. Results suggest that those American students examined in the study did not adjust to an appropriate register and manner in academic Spanish.
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Papers by David Rodríguez Velasco