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Impoliteness in EFL: Foreign Language Learners’ Complaining Behaviors Across Social Distance and Status Levels

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  • Agus Wijayanto
  • Aryati Prasetyarini
  • Mauly Halwat Hikmat

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A growing body of literature has investigated impoliteness in many domains. Nevertheless, little research has examined impoliteness done by foreign language learners. Impoliteness used in interlanguage complaints by English as a foreign language learners was observed. The effects of interlocutors’ different status levels and social distance on the use of impoliteness were analyzed. Empirical data were elicited by means of oral discourse completion tasks from 50 Indonesian English as a foreign language learners in Central Java, Indonesia. The overall direction of the findings showed trends that status levels and social distance between interlocutors prompted different frequencies and strategies of impoliteness. The frequent use of impolite complaints was instigated by a number of factors such as the learners’ understanding about the speech act in question, their perceptions on the social distance and status levels of interlocutors, and the nature of the research instrument.

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  • Agus Wijayanto & Aryati Prasetyarini & Mauly Halwat Hikmat, 2017. "Impoliteness in EFL: Foreign Language Learners’ Complaining Behaviors Across Social Distance and Status Levels," SAGE Open, , vol. 7(3), pages 21582440177, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:7:y:2017:i:3:p:2158244017732816
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244017732816
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    1. Yike Yang, 2021. "Disagreement Strategies on Chinese Forums: Comparing Data From Hong Kong and Mainland China," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(3), pages 21582440211, July.

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