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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Linguistic politeness"”.
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Transnational variation in linguistic politeness in Vietnamese : Australia and Vietnam
… at the sociopragmatic level in expressing politeness is little researched. The question of whether there are differences in the politeness expressed by Vietnamese speakers living in Vietnam and Australia is the focus of this research.
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
… influence understanding and interpretations of politeness in interactants' linguistic utterances at the cultural and contextual levels. Its main argument is that the 'core theories' of politeness do not provide an adequate methodology for analysing cross-cultural interactions as they do not …
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Politeness and paradigms of family: A perspective on the development of communicative competence in the Japanese ESL speaker
This thesis examines the issue of linguistic politeness in English with specific reference to Japanese ESL speakers. It develops a theoretical framework that sees shared assumptions concerning the marking of social-power and social-distance differentials as crucial. Developing the notion that …
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Personal reference and politeness strategies in French and Spanish: a corpus-based approach
… perspective. Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) 'Politeness theory' seeks to provide an explanation for much of the mismatch between what is 'said' and what Is 'implicated' in spoken discourse. One area of speech where this mismatch is particularly evident is that of personal reference where …
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A discourse approach to Korean politeness:towards a culture-specific Confucian framework
… and cultural values, as they apply to strategic politeness in Korean institutional settings, specifically university contexts. This study also seeks to explore issues of methodology for culture-specific politeness research, given that previous researchers either neglected cultural values, which …
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Variation in the performance of speech acts in Peninsular Spanish: apologies and requests
… and age differences for the data set. Sociolinguistic differences in the use of additional discourse features were also compared, examining the use of alerters, personal address items, intensifiers, polite markers, hedges, accepting responsibility, offering repair, and the expression of …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
… forms are chosen. This leads to a theory of linguistic politeness and a use model of speech acts.
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Atos de fala e estratégias de delicadeza no desenvolvimento da competência pragmática de alunos de Português Língua Não Materna no contexto de ensino alemão
O presente trabalho de investigação insere-se no âmbito do Mestrado Português Língua Não Materna da Universidade Aberta. Pretende-se refletir a respeito das realizações dos atos ilocutórios diretivos, comissivos, expressivos e assertivos e das estratégias de delicadeza positiva e negativa a partir …