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Appealer, e.g. do the typing, will you?

Lexical upgraders or lexical modification.

Intensifier, e.g. The typing is terribly urgent.

Expletive, e.g. do your bloody typing.

Time intensifier, e.g. do the typing right now!

Needless to say, one would look at the above points in either using or analyzing the speech act of request. However, the social factors as social distance (S), power relationship (P) and rank of imposition in context (R) should be under consideration in the speech act of request.

III- METHODOLOGY

Subjects

The participants in the study were ten Australian coaches and ten Vietnamese coaches. All of them are male coaches.

The Australian coaches have coached Vietnamese national squads. Some of them still work in the National Sport Training Center 2 in Hochiminh City. Some have left for their country. Eight of the coaches have been coaching for more than 18 years, maximum 25 years. Two of them have coached for 8 years.

The Vietnamese coaches who have worked with these Australian coaches are my students in my English class. The English level of the coaches is intermediate. Most of the Vietnamese coaches have worked as coaches for more than 10 years, maximum 20 years (one volleyball coach), one of them has been a coach for about 5 years.

The sports in which the coaches specialized are basketball, tennis, track & field, swimming, volleyball, beach volleyball, karatedo and football.

2- DCT description

In the study a discourse completion task (DCT) is used for its advantages (see Appendix1, one used for the Australian coaches and one for the Vietnamese ones). DCT is a data elicitation method which has been a commonly utilized technique in speech act studies since it first use by Blum-Kulka (1982) in the field of pragmatics and its first extensive use in the Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Pattern (CCSARP) project (Blum-Kulka et al.,1989). DCTs can be open questionnaires or in form of dialogues (Bardovi-Harlig & Hartford, 1993). Subjects are usually given a scenario and are asked to supply a response they are likely to utter in that situation. A hearer’s response may or may not be provided, which as Rose (1992) has shown, does not have a significant effect on the type of data elicited. Using DCT can collect a large number of su本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。