[Research in Language] Analyzing Use of Thanks to You Insights for Language Teaching and Assessment in Second and Foreign Language Contexts感谢对你的使用：洞察力 第二语言教学与评估 外语语境

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1、•ResearchinLanguage,2011,vol.9.2•10.2478/v10015-011-0018-9ANALYZINGUSEOFTHANKSTOYOU:INSIGHTSFORLANGUAGETEACHINGANDASSESSMENTINSECONDANDFOREIGNLANGUAGECONTEXTSBETTYLANTEIGNEAmericanUniversityOfSharjahblanteigne@aus.eduPETERCROMPTONAmericanUniversityOfSharjahAbstractThisinvestigationofthankst

2、oyouinBritishandAmericanusagewasprecipitatedbyasituationatanAmericanuniversity,inwhichanativeArabicspeakersaidthankstoyouinisolation,makinghisintendedmeaningunclear.ThestudyanalyzesuseofthankstoyouintheCorpusofContemporaryAmericanEnglishandtheBritishNationalCorpustogaininsightsforEnglishlan

3、guageinstruction/assessmentintheAmericancontext,aswellasEnglish-as-a-lingua-francacontextswherethemajorityofspeakersarenotnativespeakersofEnglishorarespeakersofdifferentvarietiesofEnglishbutwhereAmericanorBritishEnglishareforeducationalpurposesthestandardvarieties.Analysisofthetwocorporarev

4、ealedthreefunctionsforthankstoyoucommontoBritishandAmericanusage:expressinggratitude,communicating“becauseofyou”positively,andcommunicating“becauseofyou”negatively(asinsarcasm).Afourthuseofthankstoyou,thankingjournalists/guestsforbeingonnewsprograms/talkshows,occurredintheAmericancorpusonly

5、.Analysisindicatesthatfelicitoususeofthankstoyouforeachofthesemeaningsdependsonthepresenceofarangeoffactors,bothlinguisticandmaterial,inthecontextofutterance.Keywords:thankstoyou,pragmaticfailure,Arabic,expressionofgratitude,AmericanandBritishEnglishcorpora,languageteachingandtesting1.Intro

6、ductionOnthreeoccasionsatauniversityintheUSA,thefirstauthorobservedanativeArabicspeakerapparentlyattemptingtoexpressgratitudetofellowgraduatestudentswhohadhelpedhimearlier.Onallthreeoccasionstheinteractionwasasfollows:[Setting:MaleandfemalegraduatestudentsfromAsia,Africa,theMiddleEast,andNo

7、rthAmericaspeakingtogetheroutsideoftheclassroom.SomeofthemhavejustdoneafavorforS1.]UnauthenticatedDownloadDate

8、8/7/186:59AM30BettyLanteigneandPeterCromptonS1:“Thankstoyou”[smiling].LeavesOtherSs:[silence]S1,anativeArabicspeaker,wasverylikelytransferringt