The researcher Shaza Majeed Abdullah's thesis included five chapters that dealt with (an introductory chapter, which begins with an introduction, and covers the problems, objectives, research questions, scope, methodology, and importance of the study, and discusses the theoretical basis of linguistic pragmatic failure across cultures with its definitions, historical background, and types. It also presents an analysis of speech acts with a focus on requests and discusses the methodology and design of the thesis, including the tools used, which consist of a questionnaire and recorded role-playing interviews. This chapter also identifies the models on which the study relies in analyzing the results and data analysis and provides an overview of the results from the questionnaire and recorded role-playing interviews. The results were discussed and the conclusions drawn from this study were presented, and recommendations and some suggestions for future studies were included.
This thesis aims to study the linguistic pragmatic failure across cultures, with a particular focus on the area of making requests. The thesis seeks to examine the differences in request strategies and levels of directness between students of the University of Basrah, College of Arts, English Department, and native British speakers.
The thesis concluded that Iraqi students have difficulty in submitting the application in English compared to native speakers, and this is due to several factors, including their lack of communicative awareness, the influence of their Arabic language, and the student's cultural background.
