Hiding bad feelings in daily conversations in American and Vietnamese

Abstract

The very first aim of this study is to find out the ways to ex press different polite strategies to hide bad feelings in American English and Vietnamese . The second purpose is to compare the different strategies of hiding bad feelings used by different gender of two ethnic groups: Vietnamese females vs. males, and Ame rican females vs. males. Thanks to these findings, some suggestions for successful communication will be given. The study is, therefore, conducted with the hope of contributing to the socio - cultural aspects of spoken English communication for the avoidance or at least the reduction of communication failures in terms of sociolinguistic.