this essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. to analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

Pragmatics deals with language use in the context that relates to speech acts' meaning. Politeness strategies and politeness principles, as manifestation of pragmatics, are two determining communication factors both speaker hearer. This qualitative study was intended analyze used by main character Mulan her family. The data were collected using observation checklist adapted from Brown Levinson ...

This essay examines greetings as one of the elements of politeness in a Nigerian community and how it influences the cultural characteristics of the people. To analyze, this essay makes use of speech act theory and politeness principle and also considers the pragmatic context in analyzing different types of greetings such as condolences, departure and arrival, rejoicing, daily greetings, casual...

Politeness may play a role in tutorial interaction, including promoting learner motivation and avoiding negative affect. Politeness theory can account for this as a means of mitigating the face threats arising in tutorial situations. It further provides a way of accounting for differences in politeness in different cultures. Research in social aspects of human-computer interaction predict that ...

In this paper, a specific pragmatic type of request mitigation strategies (orders and requests) is analyzed in the dialogues two Portuguese textbooks for foreigners, namely, accompanying procedures, as classified by Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005, 2006). The work based on speech acts theory (Austin, 1962/1990; Searle, 1979/2002), Goffman’s (1967/1980) concept face Brown Levinson’s (1987) concepts pos...

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...

This study aims to identify and describe the four politeness strategies factors which are proposed by Penelope Brown Stephen C. Levinson as seen in an American movie entitled Freedom Writers. It is qualitative research since focus on analyzing utterances of main character. The data taken from script. There two questions discussed this study: (1) what used Erin Gruwell Writers movie? And (2) inf...