How do Saudis complain?

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2019-07-12 DOI:10.1075/LD.00041.ELD

D. El-Dakhs, Jawaher Nasser Al-Haqbani, Manal A. Althaqafi, Shorouq Al-Fouzan

引用次数: 12

Abstract

The current study adopts a dialogue-analytic approach to the examination of complaint behavior in Saudi Arabic as spoken in the Najd region, the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To this end, role-plays with 120 Saudi nationals who are Najdi-speakers were recorded and transcribed. Statistical comparisons revealed that Najdis used a variety of complaint strategies with requests for repair, expressing annoyance and providing modified blame being the most frequent. Najdis also produced a large number of initiators and internal and external modifiers, mainly to mitigate the negative force of complaints. Although a small influence was found for gender, the variables of age, social distance and social dominance showed a strong influence on the Najdis’ complaint behavior. The results are discussed in light of relevant theoretical models and the existing literature.

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沙特如何抱怨?

本研究采用对话分析法对沙特阿拉伯王国中部地区纳吉德地区使用的沙特阿拉伯阿拉伯语的投诉行为进行了调查。为此，录制并转录了120名讲纳吉迪语的沙特国民的角色扮演。统计比较显示，Najdis使用了各种投诉策略，其中最常见的是要求维修、表达不满和提供修改后的指责。Najdis还生产了大量的引发剂和内外改性剂，主要是为了减轻投诉的负面影响。尽管性别的影响很小，但年龄、社交距离和社会支配地位等变量对纳吉迪人的投诉行为有很大影响。根据相关理论模型和现有文献对结果进行了讨论。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.