University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Thai and *American Students' English Application Essays for Graduate Admissions
Abstract
dc:descriptionRegarding the analysis of positive and negative politeness strategies, none of the students used positive or negative politeness strategies exclusively. When comparing the occurrences of the two types of strategies within the same group of students, the Thai and American students both preferred positive politeness strategies to the negative politeness strategies. The purpose of the essay is to minimize the distance between the speaker and the addressee. Thus, there is more need for positive politeness strategies, i.e. showing optimism and interest, offering benefit, and being direct. However, when comparing the use of positive politeness strategies in all sub-categories between the two groups, the Thai students used more positive politeness strategies than the American students did.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Watkhaolarm, Pimyupa
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Erica McClure
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3182419
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79859