چکیده:
This study investigatesvariability in English yes/no
questions as well as the commonalities among yes/no question
variants produced by members of two different varieties of
English: Canadian English native speakers and Iranian EFL
learners.Further, it probes the role of gender in theEnglish
yes/no question variants produced by Canadian English native
speakers and those produced by Iranian EFL learners. A
modified version of the Edinburgh Map Task was used in data
collection. 60 Canadians and Iranians performed the task and
made English yes/no question variants considering the informal
context. Based on the results, the same types of yes/no question
variants were produced by both groups. However, with respect
to quantity, Canadians made more variants while the context of
use was similar. Another difference noticed was the most
frequent variant: Iranians’ frequent variant coincided with the
informal context, yet the Canadians’ frequent variant did not.
Regarding gender, Iranians did not produce any gender-based
variant; while Canadians showed that their production of
yes/no question variants was gender-oriented. These findings
revealed that both Canadians and Iranians from two different
varieties of English syntactically behaved similarly, but their
sociolinguistic behavior was not the same.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Gender-oriented Commonalities among Canadian and Iranian Englishes: An Analysis of Yes/No Question Variants Laya Heidari Darani* Department of English, Falavarjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Akbar Afghari Keywords: Kaur (2010) claims that recent growth in international contacts and communication in politics, trade and technology, tourism, education, entertainment and the internet, among others, reveals the fact that a common language is required to facilitate understanding and to provide successful communication.
Concerning variation in world Englishes claimed by Van Rooy, Trudgill, and Schneider as well as the commonalities available in these varieties proposed by Schneider; this study aims at exploring the commonalities among the Iranians’ (the Expanding Circle) linguistic performance (producing yes/no question variants) and the Canadians’ (the Inner Circle) despite their diverse socio-cultural contexts.
Results and Discussion To probe the proximity of the Iranian EFL learners’ linguistic performance with that of Canadian English native speakers, the frequency and percentage of yes/no question variants produced by the participants in each pair were calculated.
Binary Euclidean Distance (BED) Values of English Yes/no Question Variants (Canadian English Native Speakers and Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners) Variant Binary Euclidean Distance Values (%) ASV/ASC SVC/SAC SVCCCP/SACCCP SVCT/SACT P 0.
Subject-fronted (Declarative Statement+Confirmation Check Phrase) (SVCCCP/SACCCP) Regarding frequency, the fourth ranking was accorded to the SVCCCP/SACCCP variant for both the Canadian English native speakers and the Iranian intermediate EFL learners.
As stated earlier, the results of the Edinburgh Map Task seemed to be highly indicative of the linguistic performance of Canadian English native speakers and Iranian intermediate EFL learners on producing yes/no question variants."