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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"politeness"”.
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Politeness in Shakespeare
… act are the universal determinants of politeness levels in dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Hamiet, King Lear, Maebeth, and Otheilo. The comedies are used because. (i) dramatic texts provide the best information on colloquial …
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Politeness and offering in Libyan Arabic hospitality
… management model and a discursive approach to politeness. This offers an opportunity to study interpersonal relations, by going beyond linguistic strategies as responses to face threatening/enhancing acts, to study how social relationships are constructed, maintained or threaten rapport during …
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Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
… general pragmatic factors such as norms around politeness and brevity. In this paper, we report three experiments examining how speakers of British and American English interpret intensifiers like “quite” and “very,” finding support for a combination of semantic and pragmatic factors. To better …
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Acoustic and perceptual analyses of politeness in Japanese speech
In order to examine potential acoustic cues for politeness in Japanese speech, fO and temporal aspects of polite and casual utterances of two question sentences spoken by six male native speakers were acoustically analysed. The analysis showed that fO movement of the final part of utterances and …
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Japanese-English Bilinguals’ Competence Of Speech Acts In Politeness
… & Kasper, 1989; Rinnert & Kobayashi, 1999). Politeness also has diverse benchmarks depending on culture and language, as noted by Ide et al. (1992) who argue that the concept of politeness is different in Japanese and English. When considering the fact that it is challenging to possess …
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Compliments and politeness among Mexican and Puerto Rican couples.
… couples. The study applies Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory (1987) in analyzing spontaneous, face-to-face compliment giving between each romantic couple of the same nationality, that is, Mexican or Puerto Rican. Following Holmes (1986), it examines compliments according to their form, …
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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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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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Internet users' responses to ai through the prism of politeness /
… Users’ Reactions to AI Through the Prism of Politeness. The subject are evaluative stances adopted toward AI by Lithuanian-speaking and English-speaking Internet users as a reaction to AI approached in the thesis through the prism of politeness. The aim of this research is to establish the …
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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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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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Instructor Response to Uncivil Behaviors in the Classroom: An Application of Politeness Theory
This study examines levels of politeness in real time instructor responses to classroom incivility behaviors. Student participants were randomly assigned to view a video of an instructor responding to either passive or active student incivility behaviors in various ways. The responses were based on …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
Upon experiencing conflict in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and …
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Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness
Upon experiencing conflict in a relationship, individuals have a variety of response options. While one can seek revenge or avoid that person, another option – forgiveness – can repair the relationship and foster health for both relationship partners. In coming together to confront the conflict and …
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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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Face Management and the Role of Interpersonal Politeness Variables in Euphemism Production and Comprehension
… conversation using Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory framework. In Experiments 1--3, undergraduate students read short scenarios that depicted a hypothetical, unfinished conversation between two interlocutors about a taboo topic; in Experiment 4, participants adopted the speaker's …
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Analysis of conversation: politeness, sequence and topic with special reference to troubles-talk in Turkish
… thesis is concerned with the investigation of politeness in stretches of talk. and covers conversational components like adjacency pairs, sequences, topic, as well as turn internal features such as dispreference markers, and to some extent, mitigation techniques. Troubles-talk in naturally …
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The use of English requests by native Spanish speakers and its relation to politeness values
… principles, such as being cooperative or show politeness, exist in all languages and cultures but how these principles are manifested through the use of language is linguistically and culturally determined.
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Politeness in context: the case of apologies and requests of a South African isiZulu speaking community
The aim of this study was to investigate politeness within the isiZulu speaking community. The study focused on the understanding of politeness within the target community (Umlazi Township) and whether this understanding has changed over the past generation. It also examined if males and females …
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