Essays about: "refusals"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word refusals.

  1. 1. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  3. 2. PRAGMATIC TRANSFER: A STUDY OF REFUSAL STRATEGIES AMONG CHINESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Yang Song; [2021-10-04]
    Keywords : English; Cross-cultural refusals; Refusal strategies; Chinese learners of English; Pragmatic transfer; Language proficiency;

    Abstract : The present study aims at exploring how negative pragmatic transfer has affected Chinese learners of English in terms of the completion of cross-cultural refusals and the correlation between their linguistic proficiency and pragmatic competence. The empirical data were collected through an elicitation instrument, i.e. READ MORE

  4. 3. The representation of speech acts in EFL textbooks in Sweden : An investigation of greetings, requests and refusals in input and output and teacher insights

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Cristina Alfranca Ramón; [2021]
    Keywords : Speech acts; requests; refusals; greetings; EFL textbooks; pragmatic competence;

    Abstract : The teaching of pragmatics is often neglected in foreign language classes despite the wellknown importance of pragmatic competence. No matter how well a learner masters thetarget language, errors of a pragmatic nature may lead to major communicative failure orturbulence. READ MORE

  5. 4. Refusal to License: Competitor or Non-competitor – Does it Matter?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Joar Lindén; [2021]
    Keywords : EU law; competition law; abuse of dominance; article 102 TFEU; refusal to license; refusal to license non-competitors; intellectual property; essential facility; indispensability; market development; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Artikel 102 FEUF förbjuder dominansmissbruk, vilket inkluderar vägran att licensiera immaterialrättigheter (IMR) under exceptionella omständigheter. Rekvisiten för att klassificera en licensvägran som missbruk har etablerats i mål om dominerande företags vägran att licensiera egna konkurrenter. READ MORE

  6. 5. Whole crop barley silage and grass silage harvested at different stages of maturity : effects on feed intake, selection, digestibility and protein utilization in sheep

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Anna Magnusson; [2017]
    Keywords : evaluation; forage; nitrogen; wether;

    Abstract : I Sverige används gräsensilage och helsädesensilage från bland annat korn som vinterfoder i köttproduktion av både nötkreatur och lamm. Korn kan sås som skyddsgröda när vallar skall anläggas och att skörda kornet som helsädsensilage istället för vid tröskmognad får vallen mer ljus samtidigt som det blir vallskörd redan det första året. READ MORE