This politeness study aimed to investigate the different strategies or face-saving acts of teachers as they engaged in casual conversations. utilized discourse analysis research method identifying face-savings exhibited from samples The researcher analysed linguistic corpora using Brown and Levinsons Politeness Theory. Data showed that interactants observed use positive such as: By intensifying...

Based upon a theoretical framework of politeness and face-threatening acts (FTAs), an ethnographic investigation of naturally occurring apologies and politeness strategies in Cuernavaca Spanish was accomplished. Using a modified version of BlumKulka et al.’s (1989) Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project Coding Manual for Apologies and a corpus of (200) naturally occurring apology events,...

Impoliteness has recently been of interest to scholars as a linguistic study in the field pragmatics. It emerged opposite orientation politeness strategy, theory and studies. This paper explores how impoliteness strategies mapped out by Jonathan Culpeper (1996) are employed dramatic texts. examines Culpeper’s designed investigate face text. tests through Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues (1985). comedy...

In social interaction, people need to be polite and aware of others' self-image, feelings wants maintain build good relationships. For this goal, use various politeness strategies save the hearer's face when face-threatening acts are inevitable. This paper aims examine types used by six Saudi family members, three girls two boys, in their interactions based on Brown Levinson's theory (1987) fin...

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...

In this paper we argue that whiteboards in clinical settings play a hybrid role: communicating inter- and intraprofessional directives, mediating professional tensions, and mitigating potentially face-threatening acts. The data upon which this paper is based emanate from two independently conducted ethnographic studies: the first explored a range of nurse-nurse and nurse-doctor communication pr...

Three studies show that different forms of self-activation have differential influences on the processing of social comparison information. Activating neutral self-conceptions results in defensive processing of threatening social comparison information (Study 1). Participants maintain favorable self-evaluations in the face of upward comparison and rate the upward target of comparison negatively...

This study aimed to describe and analyze the spokesmen's politeness strategies gender bias in their utterances when making a marriage proposal Manggarai, Indonesia. was under philosophy of interpretivism with employment descriptive qualitative design. Six spokesmen three different proposals were main source data. Since researchers participant observers, relevant data notes taken. To support obs...

Refusal is one of the most complicated challenges for hearer, as a face-threatening act, which influenced by social factors such gender. Thus, main purpose study to investigate role gender on speech acts refusal comparing performance English foreign language (EFL) learners and second (ESL) learners, males females. EFL ESL students’ data were collected using an online written Discourse Completio...