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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Politeness strategies"”.
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Students' perceptions of classroom justice and their use of politeness strategies
… study was to investigate how students' use of politeness strategies differed based on their perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice when they engaged in a face threatening act (FTA) with their instructors. Participants included 76 undergraduate students enrolled in …
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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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Intergroup Anxiety and Attitudes toward Muslims: The Effects of Religious Identity Salience and Message Politeness Strategies
… contact theory, social identity theory, and politeness theory, this experimental study examined the effects of the target’s Muslim religious identity salience (high and low) and message politeness strategies (direct and indirect) on non-Muslim American participants’ (N = 413) perceptions of …
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A Contrastive Rhetoric Study of Thai and *American Students' English Application Essays for Graduate Admissions
Regarding the analysis of positive and negative politeness strategies, none of the students used positive or negative politeness strategies exclusively. When comparing the occurrences of the two types of strategies within the same group of students, the Thai and American students both preferred …
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Identity and Alignment in Collaborative Student Engineering Design Reviews
… alignments, or footings, on the use of the politeness strategies identified by Brown and Levinson (1987). Forty-two feedback sessions between student engineering design teams and their faculty supervisors were videotaped and transcribed. The transcripts were unitized, and then coded for …
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A pragmatic study of persuasion strategies in sales talk: A case of salespersons in selected markets and shops in Mongu town of Zambia/ Kapawa Yamboto
… with the linguistic realizations of persuasion strategies and how they are influenced by contextual factors in persuasive discourse by salespersons in selected markets and shops in Mongu town which is the capital of Western Province in Zambia. According to the 2010 National Census, its …
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A pragmatic study of persuasion strategies in sales talk: A case of salespersons in selected markets and shops in Mongu town of Zambia/ Kapawa Yamboto
… with the linguistic realizations of persuasion strategies and how they are influenced by contextual factors in persuasive discourse by salespersons in selected markets and shops in Mongu town which is the capital of Western Province in Zambia. According to the 2010 National Census, its …
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The speech act of apology : a linguistic exploration of politeness orientation in British and Jordanian culture
… Arabic, this study presents an account of politeness phenomena in Jordanian culture as compared to British culture. A comparison is thus made between the British conceptualisation of the pragmatic notions of face and politeness and their Jordanian equivalents. In order to arrive at better …
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Being polite in your second life : a discourse analysis of students’ interchanges in an online collaborative learning environment
… than even a decade ago. Being interested in how politeness phenomena as universal principles in human interaction played a role in the process of online collaborative learning in a graduate-level course, I conducted a naturalistic inquiry to explore students’ interaction through the lens of Brown …
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A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English
… overall structures of the reviews and reviewers' politeness strategies, and to consider the extend to which the texts vary across the two languages and whether the variation is present in both disciplines.
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A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English
… overall structures of the reviews and reviewers' politeness strategies, and to consider the extend to which the texts vary across the two languages and whether the variation is present in both disciplines.
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A sociolinguistic study of euphemisms on HIV and aids by Manenberg’s youth and adults
… on age and gender. This study also evaluates the politeness strategies employed by the youths and adults as means to de-taboo taboo talk related to HIV and AIDS
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
… communicative situations by applying lying strategies, specifically, how they manage refusal situations by using untruthful excuses. Lying is a communicative strategy that people sometimes adopt to manage undesirable situations in everyday conversation. However, previous studies have not …
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… interaction and contributions in terms of (im)politeness. The examination of recorded data draws on and employs Conversation Analysis (CA) as an analytical approach to examine data at two levels, linguistic/pragmatic and structural. The examination of the pragmatic patterns is conducted from a …
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Face off: Linguistic perspectives on politeness in human–robot interaction
… gain multifaceted insights into the subject of politeness in human–robot and human–human interaction. Four different studies considered different perspectives on politeness in human–robot interaction: influences on politeness (Study I), users’ expectations regarding politeness (Study II), users’ …
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(Im)politeness in email communication: how English speakers and Chinese speakers negotiate meanings and develop intercultural (mis)understandings
… in which Chinese and English speakers employ (im)politeness strategies in their emails to develop intercultural understanding. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis contributes to the discussions of intercultural communication in relation to the negotiation of (im)politeness meaning. From a …
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Linguistic and Cultural Considerations for English–Spanish Short Message Risk Communication Best Practices in Guatemala and the United States
… for physical action. Furthermore, various politeness strategies were identified in Twitter messages to either strengthen or soften the imperativeness of directives, with notable differences between Spanish and English. The analyzed WEA format employed a more straightforward communication …
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Speech Behavior in Othello: The Conversations of Roderigo and Iago
… it seems particularly useful to examine the politeness indicators of their conversations to determine who has power and how their relationship changes from scene to scene. The politeness theories of Brown and Levinson and an examination of the pronouns of direct address demonstrate how Iago …
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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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Marra and Kriol : the loss and maintenance of knowledge across a language shift boundary
… reference and other pragmatic uses, such as politeness strategies, is similar across both languages. Additionally, Kriol speakers have innovated upon their kinship system in some ways not attested in Marra or English. Finally, the domain of ethnobiology is considered, with specific attention …
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