Summary The article analyses German-Lithuanian business negotiations in the English language, focusing on questions of dynamics power and solidarity (Tannen, 1993, 1995), realized through various politeness strategies (Brown & Levinson, 1987). In evaluation audio material determination type conversation as “business negotiation”, it has been assumed that this is a communication situation wh...

The study of compliments has attracted the attention of many scholars (e.g., Goffman 1971; Lakoff 1973; Brown and Levinson 1978; Amouzadeh 2001; Golato 2002; Sharifian 2005) and has become a major issue in the area of interactional sociolinguistics. To date, many models of politeness have been put forward in the literature. In this study, Brown and Levinson’s (1978, 1987) politeness model was u...

The present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by EFL learners while chatting on the internet. Subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female Iranian natives whose internet relay chat (IRC) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between December 2007 and September 2008. Data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

A polidez pode ser considerada uma estratégia para que as interações entre os atores sociais transcorram de forma harmônica e equilibrada. Os comportamentos impolidos são evidenciados em relação aos atos polidos. Em muitas interações, porém, perceber se um termo é polido ou impolido não depende apenas fatores linguísticos, mas dos elementos situacionais engajados na interação. Nesse sentido, ne...

the present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by efl learners while chatting on the internet. subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female iranian natives whose internet relay chat (irc) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between december 2007 and september 2008. data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

As it turns out, utterances like those in (1) are very informative. (1a) was used to explain that fans of the Kinks have accepted that Ray and Dave Davies (the two most famous members of the Kinks) will never agree on anything for long enough to play together again. (1b) was uttered as a means of accepting a member of a couple’s excuse for their having to leave an evening engagement early. An a...

1. Introduction In this chapter, we introduce and discuss the hypothesis that the pervasive use of shape-based meronymy as a resource for the expression of spatial relations in a language may bias its speakers against the use of relative frames of reference (FoRs). This hypothesis is currently being tested in the project " Spatial Language and Cognition in Mesoamerica " (MesoSpace). The Mesoame...

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui strategi kesantunan berbahasa pemain game dalam media saluran youtube “Jess No Limit”. merupakan jenis penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan pragmatik. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori Brown dan Levinson meliputi empat strategi, yaitu langsung (bald-on record strategy), positif (positive politeness negatif (negative tersamar (off-record strategy...

Fenomena yang terjadi saat ini bahwa masih adanya mahasiswa mengabaikan etika sopan santun sudah tertanam sejak dulu menjadi dasar bagi kehidupan perkuliahan. Oleh karena itu, penulis tertarik untuk melakukan penelitian komunikasi antara dan dosen dalam interaksi akademik melalui media digital. Adapun jenis menggunakan kualitatif deskriptif dengan teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan trigulasi ber...