Comparison of Linguistic Realization of Advice Giving Between English Language Learners and Native Speakers in Peer-To-Peer Online Forums
Abstract
This study investigated the pragmatics of advice giving between English native speakers
in UK and nonnative speakers in Hong Kong in peer-to-peer advice forums. Forty eight and
fifty two advice messages were respectively collected from an online forum in UK and an online
forum in Hong Kong. The form and content of the advice messages were analyzed in terms of
discursive moves. The results showed that English native speakers in UK and nonnative
speakers in Hong Kong perceived similar knowledge on the elements that consists an advice
giving event, but the syntactic realization and the sequencing of the discursive moves in the
advice messages showed some differences. Compared with native speakers, nonnative speakers
in Hong Kong tended to offer directions and suggestions in more direct sentence type, and the
advice messages are organized in a straightforward way.
Citation
Guo, Weiqi (2019). Comparison of Linguistic Realization of Advice Giving Between English Language Learners and Native Speakers in Peer-To-Peer Online Forums. Master's thesis, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /183837.