Negative Politeness Strategy on Expressive Act of Rosiana Silalahi Talk Show

Simultaneous Application of Negative and Positive Politeness

effect of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of strategies

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

Nineteenth-century English Politeness: Negative Politeness, Conventional Indirect Requests and the Rise of the Individual Self

In this paper we argue that the kind of individualistic ethos Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model is accused of – and in particular its notion of (non-imposition) negative face – is not simply a reflection of British culture, but a reflection of British culture at a specific point in time. That point is the nineteenth century. Before then, the notion of an individual self separate from...

The prediction of positive and negative self-talk based on enneagram personality types in university students

The present study was conducted to determine the predictors of positive and negative self-talk based on enneagram personality types in students. The design of the present study was descriptive and correlational. A total of 215 students who were studying virtually during the quarantine period due to the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020 were selected from different fields of study by convenience samplin...

The Aesthetics of the Television Talk Show