چکیده:
The present study intended to compare the complaint responses used by President Rouhani and President Obama in the Iranian and US news interview contexts. For this purpose, Boxer’s (1993) six types of indirect complaint responses were adopted: ‘ignorance’, ‘questions’, ‘topic switch’, ‘contradiction’, ‘joke/teasing’, ‘advice/lecture’ and ‘agreement/commiseration’. The transcripts of the live news interviews were selected from Tehran Times in Iran and ‘The New York Times’, ‘The Atlantic Daily’, and ‘National Public Radio’ all carried out in 2015. The results of quantitative and qualitative data analyses revealed both universal and culture-specific responses. Whereas both nations made nearly equal use of ‘question’ response in order to make solidarity, ‘contradiction’ was used most frequently in the US interviews and ‘topic-switch’ and ‘commiseration’ were more frequent in Iranian transcripts. The findings are discussed with respect to the culture-specificity and universality and the way that news interviews deal with the political information including Iran’s nuclear negotiations.
خلاصه ماشینی:
A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Study of Indirect Complaint Responses in Iranian and American News Interviews: Iran’s Nuclear Negotiations Hadis Toofani Asl*, PhD Candidate, Department of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University.
The findings are discussed with respect to the culture-specificity and universality and the way that news interviews deal with the political information including Iran’s nuclear negotiations.
Previous studies in speech acts of complaint provide a broad picture of the varied nature of complaining as an activity in interaction, while at the same time, pointing towards issues that are of relevance to complaint; for example: the emergent, nature and structure of complaint, the way in which the activity of complaining may be influenced by other relevancies (such as social status, power, social distance) and the effect that complaining may have on the relationships between different participants in interaction (Bayat, 2013; Deveci, 2010; Khezrlou, 2012).
The complex relations and factors when the political discourse and specifically news interviews were the focus of the present study from the perspective of complain speech act.
Are there any significant differences between Iranian and American news interview transcripts with regard to the responses to indirect complaints addressed to them?
The purpose of the present study was to examine the IC responses made by Iranian and American Presidents in the news interviews which would possibly contributes to the debate on universality versus culture-specificity.