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The Importance Of Thanking Strategies Among Arab Societies

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Sociolinguistics is a branch of linguistics that studies the relationship between the society and the language used in it, through studying the effects of the traditions, cultural norms, expectations, and relationships between speakers. It aims to understand why language users speak differently in various social contexts and the effect of different social factors, such as age, class, gender, social status, and social distance, on their way of speaking. Language is a system of communication between individuals that is used to express their feelings, admiration, and to ask for and give information, it provides its users with a variety of ways to express the same thing through different linguistic forms like; pronunciation, words, grammar, …show more content…

The speech act of thanking has been investigated in many studies in different languages even in different Arabic dialects. However, this study may help the readers to understand better about the relationship between society and language since the data given are the thanking strategies used in three contexts which have different participants and topics. The researcher finally hopes that this study will be helpful for other researchers especially for those who want to carry out further studies on thanking strategies among Arab …show more content…

The information from observation will be derived from the daily life of Jordanian Arabic couples. The questionnaire will be distributed on Jordanian couples aged 20-40 years, which consists of different social situations in which the participants are expected to express their gratitude or to respond to someone else’s expression of gratitude different social situations in which the participants are expected to express their gratitude or to respond to someone else’s expression of

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