“The message is clear”: An L1 business perspective on non-target-like formulaic expressions in L2 German

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Intercultural Pragmatics Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI:10.1515/ip-2022-5002

Griet Boone, Nicolas Ruytenbeek, S. Decock

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Abstract

Abstract This study examines how non-target-like formulaic expressions used by advanced second language (L2) speakers of German are perceived by first language (L1) German business professionals in an intercultural workplace setting. By using an experimental design, we explore how L1 business professionals (N = 84) perceive the appropriateness and acceptability of the non-target-like expressions as well as how they perceive the communicative competence of the writer in two conditions: one in which the writer is explicitly described as an L2 user of German (intercultural condition), and one in which the writer is not (German condition). Moreover, by first establishing recurrent unconventionalities when L2 users create their own formulaic expressions (i.e., misspellings, grammatical errors, pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic infelicities), we examine the effect of the type of unconventionality. Our experimental stimuli are based on authentic student responses to situations in an intercultural workplace setting which were elicited through a written discourse completion task. Our results indicate that in both conditions expressions containing a grammatical error are judged as least acceptable, followed by those with a pragmatic infelicity. Ratings were significantly higher in the intercultural condition, suggesting tolerance of the L1 professionals towards non-target-like expressions of L2 users.

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“信息很清楚”:从第一语言商务角度看第二语言德语中的非目标式公式化表达

摘要本研究探讨了在跨文化工作环境中，母语为德语的商务人士如何感知高级第二语言(L2)德语使用者使用的非目标式公式化表达。通过实验设计，我们探讨了母语商务人士(N = 84)如何感知非目标式表达的适当性和可接受性，以及他们如何感知作者在两种情况下的交际能力:一种情况下，作者被明确描述为德语的第二语言使用者(跨文化情况)，另一种情况下，作者不是(德语情况)。此外，通过首先建立二语使用者创建自己的公式表达时的反复出现的非常规现象(即拼写错误，语法错误，语用语言学和社会语用错误)，我们检查了非常规类型的影响。我们的实验刺激是基于学生对跨文化工作场所情境的真实反应，这些反应是通过书面话语完成任务得出的。我们的研究结果表明，在这两种情况下，包含语法错误的表达被认为是最不可接受的，其次是那些具有语用错误的表达。在跨文化条件下，评分明显更高，这表明母语专业人员对第二语言使用者的非目标表达的容忍度较高。

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Intercultural Pragmatics Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Intercultural Pragmatics is a fully peer-reviewed forum for theoretical and applied pragmatics research. The goal of the journal is to promote the development and understanding of pragmatic theory and intercultural competence by publishing research that focuses on general theoretical issues, more than one language and culture, or varieties of one language. Intercultural Pragmatics encourages ‘interculturality’ both within the discipline and in pragmatic research. It supports interaction and scholarly debate between researchers representing different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and interlanguage paradigms. The intercultural perspective is relevant not only to each line of research within pragmatics but also extends to several other disciplines such as anthropology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology, communication, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and bi- and multilingualism. Intercultural Pragmatics makes a special effort to cross disciplinary boundaries. What we primarily look for is innovative approaches and ideas that do not always fit into existing paradigms, and lead to new ways of thinking about language. Intercultural Pragmatics has always encouraged the publication of theoretical papers including linguistic and philosophical pragmatics that are very important for research in intercultural pragmatics.