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Vestigium Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

About Social linguistic failure...

Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening!

It is suddenly getting much colder in Korea.

Especially, the flu is so rampant. Take care of your health.

I'd like to ask you what a social linguistic failure is.

From the book i read, the example of it is follows:

Native teacher: Wow, you have a good pronunciation!

Student: ...

and i also want to know "pragma linguistic failure"

(i guess 'pragma' might mean 'pragmatic')

The example of it is follows:

Native Teacher: Would you like some more?

Student: No, i would not.

would you please explain what they are and mean?

and if you can, please give me more examples and compare each other.

and if you know more about them and are not bothered,

let me learn about socio-pragma linguistic failure with examples Emotion: smile

Thank you in advance!
  

Top answer

Hi, I think you mean sociolinguistic failure. Have a look here. pdf Best wishes, Clive

  • Hi, I think you mean sociolinguistic failure.
  • Have a look here.
  • pdf Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

I think you mean sociolinguistic failure.

Have a look here.

http://www.chinamediaresearch.net/vol4no3/06Mei-xiao%20Lin-final.pdf



Best wishes, Clive
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That sounds interesting Clive. I just took a look at some examples, to see what it was about, and I found this one to be particularly interesting, since we seem to be pretty familiar with such "misunderstandings" and "odd feelings" here in this ESL forum.
Taken from the link in Clive's post:

Example 9
Situation: Chinese non-English major sophomores
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