Assessing politeness of requestive speech acts produced by Japanese learners of English in a spoken corpus

catalaAquest estudi te com a objectiu investigar si es possible avaluar la competencia sociopragmatica dels estudiants en les dades d'aprenentatge del llenguatge oral mitjancant l'estudi de les peticions dels estudiants d’angles japonesos. Es van extreure varies caracteristiques pragmalinguistiques de role plays de compra del corpus del National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japanese Learner English (NICT JLE) i vint professors d'angles (10 natius i 10 japonesos) van avaluar les propietats d'aquestes caracteristiques linguistiques des del punt de vista de la cortesia en varies situacions de compra. Nomes es va obtenir un index de coincidencia de les peticions considerablement alt en la negociacio, ja que les avaluacions no van ser congruents, en especial en el cas dels informants japonesos. Les caracteristiques amb avaluacions altes no es van utilitzar de forma frequent en el corpus, de manera que comentar la informacio sociopragmatica en el corpus meta pareix ser poc realista. EnglishThis study aims to investigate whether it is possible to assess learners’ sociopragmatic competence in learner spoken data by examining requests produced by Japanese learners of English. Various pragmalinguistic features of requests in shopping role plays in the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japanese Learner English (NICT JLE) Corpus were extracted and the appropriateness of these linguistic features was rated by twenty English language instructors (10 native speakers and 10 Japanese) in terms of their politeness in different shopping situations. A significantly high rate of agreement was only obtained in judging the requests negotiating for a refund or exchange of the purchased item. The Japanese informants showed a relatively lower agreement than the natives especially on requests asking for permission to test an item. The highly rated linguistic features were not frequently used in the corpus. Therefore, annotating the sociopragmatic information in the target corpus seems unrealistic.