The Speech Act of Correction in Egyptian Arabic and Ameri...
Morkus, Nader The present study is an empirical cross-cultural investigation of the speech act of correction in Egyptian Arabic and American English. The purpose of the study is to examine how and why Egyptians and U.S. Americans modify the illocutionary force of their corrections in terms of mitigation and aggravation in different speech situations. A Discourse Completion Task/Test (DCT) was used to elicit corrections from 30 Arabic-speaking Egyptians and ...