This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by lecturers in EFL undergraduate online classroom. focuses on answering a research question; (1) how do their teaching-learning activity. The qualitative method was used to fulfil objective of study. data collected from sit-in observation during process. It transcribed and analysed descriptively. result shows that there are three namel...

Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors, such as power or social distance, or situational ones, like physical distance or insistence, can constrain the use and felicity of pitch contours. This article investigates the felicity conditions underlying the c...

This paper introduces a more nuanced view of face and facework than the commonly used frameworks in interlanguage pragmatics. It argues that ILP not only prioritizes research on the expression of politeness in the L2 and the acquisition of politeness strategies, but that the field also does that in an extremely decontextualized manner that takes little account of the situatedness of linguistic ...

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...