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