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| Author | : Eva Ogiermann |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027254354 |
This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the correlation between indirectness and politeness underlying their theory. Their theory is applied to two languages that rely less heavily on indirectness in conveying politeness than does English, and to a speech act that does not become more polite through indirectness. An analysis of the face considerations involved in apologising shows that in contrast to disarming apologies, remedial apologies are mainly directed towards positive face needs, which are crucial for the restoration of social equilibrium and maintenance of relationships. The data show that while English apologies are characterised by a relatively strong focus on both interlocutors negative face, Polish apologies display a particular concern for positive face. For Russian speakers, in contrast, apologies seem to involve a lower degree of face threat than they do in the other two languages."
| Author | : Penelope Brown |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1987-02-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521313551 |
This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.
| Author | : Sara Mills |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2017-10-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108340768 |
Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between class and linguistic interaction, uncovering the linguistic ideologies behind politeness in British English. She sheds light on the way politeness and rudeness interrelate with the marking of class boundaries, and reveals how middle-class positions in society are marked by people's use of self-deprecation, indirectness and reserve. Systematically challenging received wisdom about cross-cultural and inter-cultural differences, she goes beyond the mere context of the interaction to investigate the social dimension of politeness. This approach enables readers to analyse other languages in the same way, and a range of case studies illustrate how ideologies of politeness are employed and judged.
| Author | : Rosina Márquez Reiter |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2000-12-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027298939 |
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures. Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.
| Author | : Manuel Rodríguez Peñarroja |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2020-07-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1527557359 |
This book provides positive evidence regarding the validity of the language used in sitcom and drama audiovisual genres and its possible applicability to the teaching of pragmatics in English as second and foreign language contexts. The first part of the text includes a description of pragmatics and its components, speech act theories development, and the use of audiovisual input for the teaching of pragmatic aspects. The second section is devoted to the sitcom and drama transcripts analysis of direct and indirect realisations of multiple speech acts as pragmalinguistic resources, sociopragmatic variables that may influence conversation, such as politeness needs and context, and interactional patterns, including turn-taking, sequences and adjacency pairs. The book provides insightful quantitative and qualitative results which will serve to confirm, along with previous research, the usefulness and validity of this type of input, not only for teaching pragmatics, but also for the development of tasks and activities with different pedagogical outcomes and students’ needs. As such, this volume is a useful resource for pragmaticians and discourse analysis scholars since its complete analysis of transcripts justifies the validity of audiovisual input and its different applications.
| Author | : Karin Aijmer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107015049 |
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
| Author | : Charlotte Taylor |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2016-10-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027266581 |
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and, as such, contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach, basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore, it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics, a rapidly developing field. Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression, in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.
| Author | : Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language and languages |
| ISBN | : 9783034306119 |
Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in pragmatics, and it is also the focus of this book. The aim of this book is to reflect this development, providing evidence from four main areas crucial to pragmatics across languages and cultures: a description of a variety of speech acts and politeness strategies in different languages and cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of several speech acts and patterns of politeness, an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the learning and teaching of speech acts and politeness in second/foreign languages, as well as some methodological resources in pragmatics. This book is intended for researchers, scholars and students interested in the field of pragmatics, in general, or in the fields of cross-cultural and second/foreign language pragmatics, and specifically for those interested in speech acts and politeness. It will also be useful to any scholar interested in how communication and culture are related.
| Author | : Sara Mills |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2016-01-26 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1137340398 |
This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.
| Author | : Sara Mills |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780719053351 |
"The aim of this book is to interrogate the process whereby spatial relations are constituted as gendered, raced and classed within the colonial and imperial context." --introd.
