This research discussed about politeness strategies in Joe Biden’s victory speech. The researcher used theory of Brown and Levinson (1987). to analyzed the types strategy dominant Biden source data was taken from speech YouTube Its 15 minutes, 19 seconds. published at 8 November 2020. researchers chose because found that this 22 three namely positive 18 (81.8%), negative 1 (4.5%) off record ind...

This study aims to delve into the unobservable dimensions of deciding and acting in a pragmatically significant speech event. Utilizing a Discourse Completion Test questionnaire, it seeks to find out the structure and pragmatic functions that lie behind EFL learners’ choice of specific wording while engaged in performing a recurrent speech act in Iran i.e. compliments. To this aim, 30 EFL learn...

We derive the Levinson type generalization of the Jensen and the converse Jensen inequality for real Stieltjes measure, not necessarily positive. As a consequence, also the Levinson type generalization of the Hermite-Hadamard inequality is obtained. Similarly, we derive the Levinson type generalization of Giaccardi's inequality. The obtained results are then applied for establishing new mean-va...

Review of Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson & R. Nevitt Sanford in collaboration with Betty Aron, Maria Hertz Levinson, and William Morrow (2019) The Authoritarian Personality. With an Introduction by Peter E. Gordon. London/New York: Verso.

Research in the past few decades has claimed that high or rising fundamental frequency (F0) signals a set of meanings related to the expression of politeness (e.g., deference, submission or lack of confidence (Gussenhoven, 2004; Ohala, 1984)). In this regard, the Frequency Code has been proposed to explain the universal tendency for high pitch to be interpreted as related to politeness and othe...

In this study, the researchers identified ways that politeness strategies are commonly employed in a speech. Specifically, study aimed at exploring used by Donald Trump and General El Sisi during their speech 75th session of UN Assembly. Both similarities differences between Trump’s Sisi's use sub-strategies speeches were investigated. A qualitative research approach was conducted, theory Brown...

O objetivo deste artigo é investigar como os pronomes indefinidos e as formas pronominais nós, você a gente, quando utilizados com referência genérica ou indeterminada, podem se configurar recursos para preservação da face em interações orais. corpus de análise constituído por uma parcela dados dos inquéritos gerados pelo Projeto Crenças atitudes linguísticas: um estudo relação do português lín...