Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2014
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Mediha Toraman
Danışman: DENİZ ZEYREK BOZŞAHİN
Özet:This study aims to find out and analyze the directive speech acts used by Turkish speakers of English while making a request or suggestion in their e-mails to their instructors. Data were collected by asking students to write e-mails to their Turkish instructors regarding certain exercises they had done. A group of these students were also contacted again regarding the e-mails they had sent to find out the reasons for their use of certain patterns of speech acts. A questionnaire which includes samples from the e-mails was evaluated by two native speakers regarding the appropriateness and politeness of the speech acts. The results show that the participants mainly resort to direct strategies in their e-mails and eliminate the opening and closing forms most of the time. The participants also have a tendency to use inclusive pronouns in their e-mails while making use of a form of a directive speech act.