Investigating persuasive strategies in greek efl learners' discourse
Abstract
The act of persuasion is seen as the attempt of one party to change the beliefs, attitudes, values, feelings and intentions, of another by submitting his/her argumentative case. In this definition (resulting from Simons,1976; Lakoff, 1982; Hardin, 2010; Mintz et al. 2012) persuasion is understood to be activated through communicative means which involve the use of language. It is deployed through the basic two productive skills of language, i.e. spoken and written although other paralinguistic features may be used (e.g. face grimaces). Research in both fields is being growing. The study of this PhD thesis aims at recording the persuasive strategies of Greek teenaged students when producing written discourse in English as a foreign language (persuasive writing). In particular, 595 foreign language students (varying from 11, to 13 years of age) were engaged to write to their British pen-friends an informal letter and attempt to persuade them to read a book they had read. Connor and Lau ...
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