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标题：A Sociopragmatic Analysis of Griping: The Case of Iranian Students
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作者：Hamid Allami
期刊名称：Linguistics Journal
印刷版ISSN：1718-2301
电子版ISSN：1718-2298
出版年度：2006
卷号：1
期号：01
出版社：Linguistics Journal
摘要：Unlike direct complaint, "griping" is a non-face-threatening speech act in which the party or object of complaint is not present. The present study is an attempt to investigate the responses provided for griping in terms of six major categories: 1) topic switch/blank reply, 2) question, 3) contradiction, 4) joking/teasing, 5) advice, 6) agreement/ commiseration. The data has been collected through a 'Discourse Completion Task' (DCT) to set up the necessary conditions for the speech act to occur. The findings reveal that in response to griping, Iranian students, most of the time, feel obliged to further conversation and maintain solidarity through the use of the supportive speech act of commiseration. However, they do not support Boxer's finding that women participate more in troubles-talks than men, or that women mostly commiserate with griping while men contradict or give advice.
关键词：sociolinguistics, pragmatics, speech act theory, non-face-threatening act, griping