BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3642-734515e10770614473089de0397bcbdd@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260414T225456Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T170000 SUMMARY:“Communicating Effectively? Investigating German-English Bilinguals’ Str ategies of Requesting,” Hyoun-A Joo DESCRIPTION:\nThe act of communication is one of establishing\, building \, and maintaining relationships. Therefore\, understanding communicativ e norms of a particular socio-cultural group is crucial for successful i nteractions. As our societies increasingly diversify and globalize\, ski llful and effective communicators who navigate sensitively and appropria tely through interpersonal\, intracultural\, and intercultural encounter s are essential for peaceful and productive communities.\n\nThe present study seeks to better understand effective communication in intercultura l contexts by employing speech act theory (Austin 1962\; Searle 1969) wh ich is housed in the field of pragmatics. Focusing on the speech act of requesting\, it asks if German-English bilinguals differentiate their co mmunicative strategies depending on the language they use. Completing an oral discourse completion task with six fictive scenarios situated at a professional workplace environment\, fourteen participants recorded req uests as response to the scenarios\, in German and in English. Prelimina ry analysis suggests that the bilinguals realize requests differently\, depending on the language they use. In German\, they tend to be more dir ect and use more imperatives. In English\, they choose less direct prepa ratory queries. Results will be discussed considering culture-specific c onventions of politeness marking as means of effective communication. Th e preliminary finding suggests that participants are aware of the differ ences regarding the communicative norms of their languages&mdash\;a cruc ial aspect of intercultural communicative competence and effective commu nication.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/gsll_comm unicating-effectively/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The act of comm unication is one of establishing, building, and maintaining relationship s. Therefore, understanding communicative norms of a particular socio-cu ltural group is crucial for successful interactions. As our societies in creasingly diversify and globalize, skillful and effective communicators who navigate sensitively and appropriately through interpersonal, intra cultural, and intercultural encounters are essential for peaceful and pr oductive communities.

The present study seeks to better understand effective communication in intercultural contexts by employing speech a ct theory (Austin 1962; Searle 1969) which is housed in the field of pra gmatics. Focusing on the speech act of requesting, it asks if German-Eng lish bilinguals differentiate their communicative strategies depending o n the language they use. Completing an oral discourse completion task wi th six fictive scenarios situated at a professional workplace environmen t, fourteen participants recorded requests as response to the scenarios, in German and in English. Preliminary analysis suggests that the biling uals realize requests differently, depending on the language they use. I n German, they tend to be more direct and use more imperatives. In Engli sh, they choose less direct preparatory queries. Results will be discuss ed considering culture-specific conventions of politeness marking as mea ns of effective communication. The preliminary finding suggests that par ticipants are aware of the differences regarding the communicative norms of their languages—a crucial aspect of intercultural communicativ e competence and effective communication.

For more details: http s://events.la.psu.edu/event/gsll_communicating-effectively/

LOCATION:157 Burrowes Building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR