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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"politeness theory"”.
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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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A Linguistic Assessment of Domestic Abuse: Determining Patterns of Politeness Theory and Persuasion Utilised to Facilitate Abuse and Disguise Abusive Personalities
… Forms of manipulation reside within uses of politeness and persuasion, and we thus must determine the patterns of such in order to explain abusive behaviours and determine abuse. The present thesis concludes that politeness methods are utilised to groom victims, to perpetrate and mask abusive …
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The role of reactance and positive emotions in persuasive health messages: refining the theory of psychological reactance and the politeness theory and testing the theories of positive emotions
… of this study is that this study extended the Theory of Psychological Reactance by incorporating the notion of threats to identity based on the Politeness Theory. It was found that a perceived threat to identity led psychological reactance and had direct influences on persuasive outcome. This …
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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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Achieving cross-cultural equivalence in a study of American and Taiwanese requests
… of universality in Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory.
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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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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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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
Guided by intergroup 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) …
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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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The Deliberative Potential of Social Media: Face Threat and Face Support in Online Political Expression
… talk. Literature on the concept of face and politeness theory provides a framework for understanding interpersonal interactions, both online and offline. To understand if social media has the potential to host political discussion among millennials, a survey (N = 352) of undergraduate …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
… distance, as expounded in Brown and Levinson's politeness theory. The data were analyzed from two perspectives: pragmatic and lexicogrammatical. In the pragmatic analysis, the data were segmented in to refusal moves and interactional function categories. Drawing on politeness theories of …
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Discursive strategies for political survival : a critical discourse analysis of Thai no confidence debates
… of parliamentary discourse. At the micro level, politeness theory and pragmatics are employed to investigate the potential functions that small linguistic features may serve under such social conditions. Five sample accusatory speeches and two sample respondent speeches from recent debates are …
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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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'Coffee is not coffee at twelve o'clock at night': Exploring the motivations for speaking indirectly
… 3 through 7 focus on three theories of ORI – Politeness Theory (PT), the Strategic Speaker approach (SS), and the Intimacy accounts. Theoretical predictions associated with each of these theories are tested empirically through a series of experiments that explore the use of ORI amongst native …
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Estrategias de atenuación en español L1 y L2 : estudio contrastivo en hablantes españoles y suecos
… within the framework of face (Goffman 1967) and politeness theory (Brown and Levinson 1987), which assumes the existence of Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), which human beings, in interaction, strive to mitigate. However, by contrast with the traditional view of mitigation, and following Briz (e.g. …
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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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They become badasses: Qualitative inquiry into academic identity and face negotiation in mentoring relationships
… and hands-off mentoring. Implications for theory and practical applications are discussed.
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From deference to face: the evolution of usted in Costa Rican Spanish
… 2007) and also incorporates the perspectives of politeness and pragmatics (Terkourafi, 2005; Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987). The pragmatic exploitations observed throughout the first period become established in the language through the use of one meaning or the other in very specific contexts. …