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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"indirectness"”.
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Indirectness in request refusals : differences between Americans and Japanese
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Communication, 2005
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Examining the role of uncertainty and goals in the threat of relationship talk and associations with avoidance, indirectness, and communication satisfaction
… behaviors and outside observers’ ratings of indirectness and avoidance suggest differences between insider and outsider perspectives of relationship talk. Partners judged conversations more negatively as indirect relationship talk and avoidance of relationship talk increased, but this …
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'Coffee is not coffee at twelve o'clock at night': Exploring the motivations for speaking indirectly
… indirect speech acts with a focus on off-record indirectness (ORI), a linguistic strategy through which a speaker deliberately conveys to the addressee two related meanings – a literal, direct meaning and an indirect meaning. Due to the pragmatic ambiguity of the ORI utterance, the indirect …
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Identity Creation and Power Acquisition Through Language use in Preadolescent and Adolescent Girls
… managed through language use; how directives and indirectness are used to create and maintain social power; and how female children are modeling and employing language tactics based on knowledge acquired from adult displays of language use and exchange. The insights gained here are important …
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Grandmothers' and mothers' emotion socialization through intergenerational reminiscing in underrepresented families in the U.S.
… underrepresented families. I also incorporate indirectness, a concept that is well-established in linguistic research. Rather than focusing on what family members say during emotion-related reminiscing, indirectness assesses how family members communicate reminiscing content. Participants for …
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Attachment Theory and Self-Disclosure of HIV Status
… of disclosure, specific communication directness/indirectness measures, and feared consequences measures. Overall the results reflected the differing stereotypical characteristics of each attachment style. Results also suggested that self-disclosure of one's HIV seropositive status is affected by …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… and professional settings. Cultural norms around indirectness, shared context, and cautious self-expression often influence how learners communicate in English, leading to subtle but persistent barriers to clarity, participation, and confidence. Adopting a research-through-design approach, the …
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Choosing a college and major : the sociopragmatics of advice-requesting and giving in Jinyun Wu Chinese
… power relations and the relationship between indirectness and politeness are examined. Contra Brown and Levinson (1987), it is argued that the primary nature of advice requesting and giving in the typical Chinese college application process is face enhancing rather than face threatening, due …
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Knowledge through communication : a response to the question of how testimony-based knowledge is possible
… to establish it as knowledge, then the indirectness of testimony does not inevitably result in a problem of vulnerability. The second component constitutes a positive explanation for the possibility of knowledge through testimony. I argue that (rather than seeking to justify our …
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Vagueness in mathematics talk
… Teachers also use vagueness as a means of indirectness in addressing pupils; this strategy is associated with the redress of 'face threatening acts'. My thesis is that vagueness can be viewed and presented, not as a disabling feature of language, but as a subtle and versatile device which …
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A Metaethical Study of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention Through Critical Practical Analogy
… which both acknowledges the non-linearity and indirectness of practice-led research and the need for interdisciplinary intelligibility.
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Designing for flexible vehicle interiors through discrete architectural methods: Reframing the role of the designer in an automated and computational age
… mode of practice. This thesis argues that indirectness is not a diminishment of creativity, but a reconceptualisation of it, aligned with broader cultural shifts in computation, automation, and shared authorship. By building, testing, and communicating ‘Discrete Automobility’ the research …
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
… The thesis proves that notions such as face and indirectness are not universal, and that politeness is a cultural contextual issue Thus, my approach identifies pragmatic failure, and isolates the cultural differences that lead to misunderstandings, through investigating the different implicatures …
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slowness
lavare lente | a place for slow washing | alexandria, virginia the proposal is for a slow laundering facility for alexandria, virginia. the building is intended to be slow and deliberate in its construction and inhabitation. without conventional machines, the architecture and the individual must …
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Η ΕΚΦΡΑΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΣΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ
THIS THESIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO INVESTIGATE THE STATUS OF POLITENESS WITHIN GREEK CULTURE AND COMPARE IT TO THAT OF ENGLISH . AMONG THE BASIC AIMS OF THIS UNDERTAKING IS TO ESTABLISH THE REASONS WHICH HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A WIDESPREAD IMPRESSION THAT THE GREEKS ARE IMPOLITE OR AT LEAST LESS POLITE THAN …