Pragmatic markers and politeness strategies in human- and ai-generated english writing by uzbek efl learners: a comparative corpus-based study

Laziza Absattarova

World of Philology · 2026-yil

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Generative AI has quietly become one more source of English- language text in the world, and that raises a question worth asking: how does what a machine writes actually compare with what a language learner writes? Most of the attention so far has gone to grammar, vocabulary, and overall writing quality. Much less has gone to pragmatics - the layer of writing where a text manages relationships, signals stance, and organizes an argument for a reader. This gap is especially noticeable for Uzbek EFL learners, whose writing has rarely been examined from this angle. The present study compares pragmatic markers and politeness strategies in human- and AI- generated English argumentative writing, using a corpus-based design that sets learner- written texts against AI-generated responses to the same prompts. The analysis looks at discourse-organizing markers, stance and interpersonal markers, and politeness strategies, drawing mainly on Brown and Levinson's framework for the latter. The proposed dataset includes 60 comparable texts - 30 written by learners and 30 generated by AI. Markers are located through frequency searches and then checked by hand in context, since frequency alone cannot settle what a form is doing in a sentence; politeness strategies are classified by their interpersonal function rather than by surface wording. The illustrative analysis points to a pattern: AI-generated texts tend to carry more explicit discourse-organizing devices and lean more on negative-politeness resources, while learner texts show more individual variation and a more context- sensitive use of solidarity language. The broader argument is that pragmatic appropriateness is not the same thing as grammatical correctness, and it is not guaranteed just because a text contains recognizable discourse markers. For Uzbek EFL learners, knowing why and when to use a given marker or politeness strategy matters as much as knowing the form itself. The study sits at the intersection of second- language writing, pragmatics, politeness research, and the newer question of how humans and AI systems produce text differently.

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MualliflarLaziza Absattarova
JurnalWorld of Philology
NashriyotЎзбекистон давлат санъат ва маданият институтининг Фарғона минтақавий филиали
Nashr sanasi2026-10-05
Jild5
Son9
Betlar900-911
TilIngliz
Ilmiy sohaFilologiya
Indeksga qo‘shilgan2026-10-06

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pragmatic markers, politeness strategies, AI-generated writing, human writing, Uzbek EFL learners, pragmatics, second-language writing, discourse

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APALaziza Absattarova (2026). PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY. World of Philology, 5(9), 900-911. https://journals-kokandsu.uz/index.php/philo/article/view/6740
GOST (OAK)Laziza Absattarova PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY // World of Philology. – 2026. – T. 5, № 9. – P. 900-911.
MLALaziza Absattarova. “PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY.” World of Philology, 5(9), 900-911, 2026. https://journals-kokandsu.uz/index.php/philo/article/view/6740
ChicagoLaziza Absattarova. “PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY.” World of Philology, 5(9), 900-911 (2026). https://journals-kokandsu.uz/index.php/philo/article/view/6740
HarvardLaziza Absattarova (2026) ‘PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY’, World of Philology, 5(9), 900-911. https://journals-kokandsu.uz/index.php/philo/article/view/6740
BibTeX
@article{lazizaabsattarova2026,
  title = {PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN HUMAN- AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH WRITING BY UZBEK EFL LEARNERS: A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDY},
  author = {Laziza Absattarova},
  journal = {World of Philology},
  year = {2026},
  volume = {5},
  number = {9},
  pages = {900-911},
  url = {https://journals-kokandsu.uz/index.php/philo/article/view/6740}
}

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