Greetings play an essential role in everyday conversational routines and are commonly used as a ritual form of politeness. They serve important function building maintaining social relationships. often consist brief conventionalized expressions that not necessarily meant to be interpreted literally, but rather tool demonstrate politeness or enhance the hearer's positive face. This paper aimed m...

This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by lecturers in EFL undergraduate online classroom. focuses on answering a research question; (1) how do their teaching-learning activity. The qualitative method was used to fulfil objective of study. data collected from sit-in observation during process. It transcribed and analysed descriptively. result shows that there are three namel...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

Nowadays, intercultural communication via email among various groups and societies has been increasingly important as an aspect of communication. This research aims at investigating aspects of politeness meaning negotiation via emails exchanged between English and Persian speakers with different cultural backgrounds. The present study also reveals the potentials for using emails to experience c...

Adopting a discursive approach to politeness (see, for example, Mills 2011), this paper explores spontaneous naturally occurring compliment responses (CRs) in Chinese from a cross-generational perspective. It aims to extend our understanding of the dynamic nature of face and/or politeness in contemporary Chinese. 16 multiparty conversations among two generations of the Chinese in China’s mainla...

Homophily, the phenomenon of similar people getting connected to and being socially familiar with each other, is well-known on online social networks. Detection of user stance towards given topics, on online social networks, specifically Twitter, has emerged as a mainstream research topic. The current work provides insights into the impact of topic-specific stance similarity and social familiar...

In the last decades, studies on politeness have discussed central concepts stemming from Brown and Levinson’s work ([1978] 1987), such as face , threats mitigations strategies of . One problems that study presents for analysis a situated corpus speech is use mentioned notions calls socio-cultural perspective. other words, it necessary to include extralinguistic factors in politeness, phenomena ...

one tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. to this aim, four political interviews were selected from cnn and bbc websites on the basis of t...