As South Asian Englishes have been studied regarding their structural levels but only few studies have focused on their pragmatics, this study investigates thanking strategies in the spoken parts of the British, Indian, and Sri Lankan components of the International Corpus of English. The paper answers the questions: Do variety, speaker age and gender, context formality, position within the speaker turn, and the presence of a benefactor, intensifier, and reason influence the choice between thank and thanks; and what implications do these findings have for the notion of pragmatic nativisation? In a multifactorial analysis, a conditional inference tree identifies age, benefactor, intensifier, and variety as significant predictors while a random forest highlights the importance of variable interactions with variety.

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南亚英语中感谢的语用本土化

由于对南亚英语的结构水平进行了研究，但很少有研究关注他们的语用学，因此本研究调查了国际英语语料库中英国、印度和斯里兰卡部分口语部分的感谢策略。本文回答了以下问题：多样性、说话者的年龄和性别、语境形式、说话者内部的位置、恩人的存在、强化剂和原因是否会影响在感谢和感谢之间的选择; 这些发现对语用本土化的概念有什么影响？在多因素分析中，条件推理树将年龄、恩人、强化剂和品种识别为重要的预测因子，而随机森林则突出了变量与品种相互作用的重要性。