Essays about: "Politeness Strategies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words Politeness Strategies.

  1. 1. Intercultural (mis)communication in Swedish Workplaces from the Perspective of Brazilian Employees

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Ana Paula Viera de Carvalho; [2023-08-10]
    Keywords : Intercultural Communication; Politeness Strategies; Brazilian Employees; Swedish Workplaces; Power Distance; Masculinity Femininity.;

    Abstract : This study explores politeness and linguistic strategies in intercultural workplace communication in Sweden from the perspective of Brazilian white-collar employees. Employing Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness framework and Hofstede's (2001; 2011) dimensions of Power Distance and Masculinity/Femininity. READ MORE

  3. 2. PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE: REFUSAL SPEECH ACT BY IRANIAN STUDENTS IN SWEDEN

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Kazhal Shatery; [2023-04-19]
    Keywords : English; culture; speech act of refusal; pragmatic; pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics; politeness theory; refusal strategies;

    Abstract : Understanding cross-cultural differences plays a crucial role in communication and successful cross-cultural communications depends on various factors such as pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Many researchers focus more on the aspect of pragmatics such as speech acts. The present study is a contrastive study of refusal speech act. READ MORE

  4. 3. A leadership analysis of George Orwell's Animal Farm

    University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Assed Aranda; Jasper Mauro Karlsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Leadership style; qualitative content analysis; crisis communication; politeness theory; cooperative principle; principled negotiation; framing;

    Abstract : This essay aims to research the writing of George Orwell by analysing the four main pigs in his novel Animal Farm from a linguistic and rhetorical perspective. The paper's purpose is to explore occurrences of chosen phenomena tied to linguistic and rhetorical theory, with the goal to create an understanding of how Orwell portrays his characters exercising leadership and how their communicative strategies differ or coincide. READ MORE

  5. 4. Assessing Perceived Politeness In A Virtual Agent’s Request To Join A Conversational Group

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Alessandro Iop; [2022]
    Keywords : Virtual Reality; Politeness; Persuasiveness; Small group behavior; Embodied social agents;

    Abstract : Research around the implementations of human-like interactions during conversations with embodied conversational agents is currently at the forefront of Human-Computer Interaction as a field of science. In particular, conveying politeness through verbal and nonverbal behaviors is a significant challenge when modeling life-like virtual agents, as it underlies the conventional set of unspoken rules that govern human communication. READ MORE

  6. 5. Apologies among English as a lingua franca speakers : An Investigation into politeness strategies using the Vienna Oxford International Corpus of English

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Sally Lindgren; [2021]
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