Polite Requests in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study
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| Title | Polite Requests in English and Arabic: A Comparative Study |
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| Abstract | The study of polite requests has received a great deal of attention by Linguists. However, to the best of our knowledge, no work has been conducted on a comparative level of polite requests from English into Arabic. Polite requests performances pose a problem for requestees and translators. In fact, they are context bound. Once the requester requests something by producing an utterance, he/she will perform three acts, namely locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act. So, the translator does not know which act should be translated, unless he/she is aware of the intention of the requester. Expressing polite requests in English and Arabic are not identical. Politeness has been viewed as the result of a conversational contact by participants of speech event in an effort to maintain socio-communicative verbal interaction conflict-free. Politeness is then nothing, but a set of constraints on verbal behaviour. This study aims at specifying five different patterns of direct polite requests, rendering these patterns from English into Arabic to see how they are realized, and showing the most effective methods for translating these polite requests. In order to achieve the above mentioned aims, the study hypothesizes that: (1) there is no one-to-one correspondence between the structures of polite requests in English and Arabic. (2) polite markers of requests in English are lesser than these markers in Arabic, (3) the superficial forms of polite requests in English and Arabic are not identical, yet, they can be translated. It has come to the findings that polite markers which give the utterances the force of polite requests in Arabic are more than those in English. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-05-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 5 (2012) |
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