In the last decades, studies on politeness have discussed central concepts stemming from Brown and Levinson’s work ([1978] 1987), such as face , threats mitigations strategies of . One problems that study presents for analysis a situated corpus speech is use mentioned notions calls socio-cultural perspective. other words, it necessary to include extralinguistic factors in politeness, phenomena ...

In this paper we present our Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) capable of displaying a vast set of facial expressions to communicate its emotional states as well as its social relations. Our agent is able to superpose and mask its emotional states as well as fake or inhibit them. We defined complex facial expressions as expressions arising from these displays. In the following, we describe a ...

The ‘third space’ (Bhabha, 1994) is a way of re-imagining the traditional teacher-student hierarchical relationship. This practitioner research study uses computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 1996) to investigate the potential of email to facilitate such ‘third space’ communication. It is based on 279 emails exchanged between 10 international ESL students and their lecturer at an Aust...

The purpose of this study was to determine the politeness strategies used by teachers when teaching English in coeducational classrooms and impact these on students. We focused analyzing teachers' verbal perceptions off-record explained implications as found two lesson recordings. Researchers employed targeted selection informative qualitative studies obtain data. Data were collected through in...

This paper analyses a corpus of compliment responses in Turkish according to the conversational maxim approach (Leech 1983, 2003) and face-management (Brown Levinson 1987) with view extending conceptualisation self-presentation theorising on politeness. It observes that two theories ground politeness consideration for alter give precedence sense displaying deference solidarity at expense self-p...

Using Goffman’s (1981) participation framework and Brown & Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory, this study examines stand-up comedy in the U.S. and Japan and demonstrates pervasive patterns of communication in comedy performance. In the U.S., stand-up acts are comprised of solo comedian’s narrative performance, while stand-up comic narrative in Japan is performed in the form of dialogue between...

This study explores the usage of commissive speech acts in women-centric movies "Little Women" and "Enola Holmes." It employs Searle's classification (1979), along with Hymes' social structure theory (2001) Brown Levinson's politeness (1987). The analysis uncovers various types set nineteenth century. Furthermore, it reveals that employment strategies employed by characters are significantly in...