Pragmatic functions of the phrases why not and go ahead in film dialogue

Name: Jakarin Niamklang

keyword: Film dialogue

; Corpus

; Speech acts

; Response tokens

; Discourse markers

; Spoken language

Abstract: Spoken language in English is a major obstacle for non-native English learners since the informality of this kind of language includes unclear purposes and metaphorical meanings. However, the prevalence of spoken language makes it inevitable to study for greater comprehensibility (Tabatabaei, 2011). This study, which is a corpus-driven analysis, aims to examine pragmatic functions of the distinctive phrases in spoken language, i.e., why not and go ahead. They were chosen as spoken devices which are representative for the word band occurring in low frequency in conversations, but it is worth investigating their characters. In the process of examining them, film dialogues gained from 40 movie scripts, which represent face-to-face conversations in terms of functional use, were collected for composing a film dialogue corpus (Biber, 1988). The target phrases are explored in various aspects by necessary theories in analyzing spoken devices, namely, speech acts, response tokens and discourse markers. In addition, with regard to extracting the implications of the positional form, the present study also examines the significance of position in talking turn of the target phrases. After examining them within the self-invented corpus, the results reveal that the target phrases why not and go ahead can contain more than one function and purpose at a time. Their most popular use is to serve the function of maintaining the continuance and signaling the switching-turn in conversation. Furthermore, the phrase why not is preferable to serve the purpose of demanding for explanation while the phrase go ahead tends to be used as a phrase of directive and statement. The pattern emerging is that the phrase why not is likely to occur in isolation with predictable purposes while the phrase go ahead shows randomness of occurrence in talking turn. Pedagogically, a self-invented corpus can provide convenience of self-directed study by its adjustable attribute. Still, there are some defects that learners should consider for improvement, such as, finding a suitable point to analyze target samples within a corpus to claim the generalization

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Upsorn Tawilapakul

Role: advisor

Created: 2016

Modified: 2021-08-02

Issued: 2021-08-02

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2016.1273

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Career English for International Communication

Grantor: Thammasat University

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