İngilizceyi yabancı dil olarak konuşan Türk üniversite öğrencilerinin Türkçe ve İngilizce kabalık algıları

Impoliteness has been studied since the 1980s and it considers human language social and cultural contexts. It is usual in human communication that people have different judgments about impolite acts. Any individual has the potential and chance to use impolite language in the case of conflicts and this knowledge is a part of communicative competence. In view of this, the current research aims to go forward on impoliteness to investigate the perceptions of Turkish EFL speakers about impoliteness judgments in their L1 (Turkish) and L2 (English) to find out whether language may have a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural impact on this and to explore L1 and L2 differences in impoliteness judgment across strategies formulated by Culpeper (1996). As will be discussed, gender is also an important factor in the literature and it is also taken as a factor to reveal speakers' perceptions of impoliteness. 154 participants participated in the written data collection and 22 participants participated in the oral data collection procedure (interviews and think-aloud protocols). The results indicated that in both Turkish and English the participants perceived impolite language similarly. On the other hand, it was found there were differences across the strategies.