In order to examine potential acoustic cues for politeness in Japanese speech, F0 and temporal aspects of polite and casual utterances of two question sentences spoken by 6 male native speakers were acoustically analysed. The analysis showed that F0 movement of the ®nal part of utterances and speech rate of utterance were consistently di€erently used in these di€erent speaking styles across all...

Using a discourse analytic qualitative approach, we investigated the naturally-occurring discourse that arose as part of two kinds of regular course activities, synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated discussions. The messages contributed by members of a graduate course were analyzed for the kind of discourse functions and the kind of politeness strategies they displayed. Results indicat...

The purpose of this study is to identify the politeness strategies used by Taylor Swift and Paul Rudd in Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon YouTube videos "Taylor Talk Record-Breaking Midnight Album, Music Video Cameos Easter Eggs" "Paul Compares His Men's Health Shoot Jonathan Majors' (Extended)" when they decide use particular communication. research employed a qualitative descriptive method usin...

The therapeutic success of physician-patient interactions depends in large part on how physicians interpret and respond to patients' implicit and explicit messages. Using a hypothetical vignette, in which a patient refuses to comply with a recommended therapeutic regimen, we found that first-year medical students with no classroom training in medical interviewing implicitly recognized that the ...

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...

If politeness makes society a nicer place to be, by lubricating the interaction of its human parts, then the same is important for online society. As the Internet becomes more social, software can mediate social interactions, serve as a social agent or act as a personal assistant, but to succeed in these roles it must learn a new skill politeness. This article proposes politeness as the disting...

This study investigates the contribution of voice quality to the expression of “positive politeness” under varying conditions of relative social status between male speakers of Japanese. In previous studies, suprasegmental features have been found to express politeness. Bandwidth of the first formant (BW1) was also found to be relevant to perceived politeness. However, the association between B...

PurposeThis study examines the politeness strategies employed by male and female students its differences across genders. MethodTo collect data for this qualitative study, 16 participants (with equally eight students) were purposefully opted from Department of English Language Education at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. Eleven situations created to obtain responses using a semi-structured interview....