INDIRECT REFUSAL ACTS IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE: A STUDY OF “GONE WITH THE WIND” AND ITS VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION “CUỐN THEO CHIỀU GIÓ”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59266/houjs.2026.1143Từ khóa:
speech acts, refusal, indirect refusal, Gone with the Wind, Cuốn theo chiều gió.Tóm tắt
By contrasting indirect refusal strategies across English and Vietnamese, this paper draws empirical data from Margaret Mitchell's classic novel alongside its translated text. Utilizing speech act theory, it analyzes 83 instances of both typical and atypical indirect refusals to discern their linguistic patterns and commonalities. The results indicate that both languages predominantly utilize declarative structures, succeeded by interrogative and request forms, exhibiting broadly analogous distributions. The distinctions that were noticed mostly come from structural language elements, not from pragmatic variance. The Vietnamese translation effectively maintains the indirectness and communicative aim of the original text, offering significant contributions to contrastive pragmatics and translation studies.
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