Use of Clarification Requests and Confirmation Checks: A Discursive Pragmatic Approach
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Clarification requests and confirmation checks are regarded as negotiation of meaning strategies in second language acquisition, by which assistance is requested to resolve incomprehension in a conversational discourse (e.g. Long 1996; Gass 2003). The present study attempts to explore pragmatic aspects of the use of clarification requests and confirmation checks in casual conversations between advanced adult Korean learners of English. Adopting Spencer-Oatey’s (2008) rapport management and Arundale’s (2010) face interpretation approaches, this paper explores how some clarification requests and confirmation checks may be related to potential pragmatic concerns in communication within a particular context. By examining utterances through dialogue interactions, this study demonstrates that some clarification requests and confirmation checks may involve rapport consideration or induce face interpretation of the discourse participants at the moment of utterance in ongoing conversations. This may suggest that, in such cases, the speaker may achieve connectedness or separateness (Arundale 2010), rather than correct comprehension.
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Clarification requests and confirmation checks are regarded as negotiation of meaning strategies in second language acquisition, by which assistance is requested to resolve incomprehension in a conversational discourse (e.g. Long 1996; Gass 2003). The present study attempts to explore pragmatic aspects of the use of clarification requests and confirmation checks in casual conversations between advanced adult Korean learners of English. Adopting Spencer-Oatey’s (2008) rapport management and Arundale’s (2010) face interpretation approaches, this paper explores how some clarification requests and confirmation checks may be related to potential pragmatic concerns in communication within a particular context. By examining utterances through dialogue interactions, this study demonstrates that some clarification requests and confirmation checks may involve rapport consideration or induce face interpretation of the discourse participants at the moment of utterance in ongoing conversations. This may suggest that, in such cases, the speaker may achieve connectedness or separateness (Arundale 2010), rather than correct comprehension.
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