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Alrefaee, Yasser; Al-Ghamdi, Naimah; Almansoob, Najeeb – Online Submission, 2019
The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction