Human daily social interaction is anchored in interpersonal discourse, and linguistic politeness thus vital to our everyday language including face-to-face computer-mediated communication. Politeness conventions emails are not being taught students seem be a work-in-progress. In power-asymmetrical context such as student-teacher interaction, requests pragmatically demanding, complex, inherently...

This study aims to explore the variables in perceptions of (im)politeness in an intercultural apology, focusing on discussion of the cultural and gender differences. Through the study’s instrument, a conversation between an Australian and a Taiwanese Chinese speaker, the study suggests that there are indeed some differences in perceptions of (im)politeness across d...

We claim that ideas of etiquette can be expanded and utilized to facilitate, inform, and predict human-computer interaction and perceptions. By expanding on the qualitative model of etiquette proposed by Brown and Levinson we created a quantitative, computational model of etiquette that allows a machine to interpret and display politeness. This model was then embedded into a testbed and a serie...

In our paper we focus on analysing textual information usage (selected politeness factors of speech act) in mother tongue and in foreign language to identify phenomena of a language consciousness transfer from the mother tongue into a foreign language communication – transference phenomena – and their impact on textual structures of politeness in chosen languages. Our aim was to make an analysi...

It has been proposed in the literature that prosody plays a role in the expression of politeness. The present paper attempts to explore the contribution of tonal scaling to the expression of paralinguistic meanings. More specifically, it examines the relationship between pitch height and the degree of perceived politeness in yes–no questions in Central Catalan. Studies on the biologically–deter...

Individuals in two studies listened to statements or questions that were either consistent or inconsistent across verbal content and tone of voice. Results showed that tone of voice substantially affected judges’ ratings of the politeness for positive content statements but did so only minimally for negative content statements. Tone of voice affected judges’ politeness ratings of both positive ...

This study examined how instigators of abuse used emotionally abusive messages to manipulate politeness attack their partners' face. Additionally, we studied the people experiencing responded such messages. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), analyzed 20 semi-structured interviews with those who have experienced abuse. Participants reported that all three Austin's (1990) face act strat...