Essays about: "face-threatening act"
Found 3 essays containing the words face-threatening act.
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1. Establishing and preserving social relations in classroom discourse : A study of a teacher’s redress to FTAs that enhance and maintain teacher-student rapport
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This study examines how a Swedish upper secondary school EFL teacher avoids performing Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) in instances of reprimanding and giving oral feedback to students. The results and discussion show that the teacher evades potential FTAs caused by statements and demands by using indirectness in the form of questions and requests. READ MORE
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2. Being polite : An experimental study of request strategies in Swedish EFL classes
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)Abstract : In a world which continuously becomes more globalised, the need to adapt one's language depending on context becomes increasingly important. This is acknowledged in the Swedish syllabus for the upper-secondary school, which emphasises communicative competence and the need to adapt to situation and hearer. READ MORE
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3. Intertextuality as a politeness strategy : A qualitative study of the use and function of intertextuality in the television series Suits
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : This paper investigates the use and function of intertextuality in the television series Suits, and examines the interplay between intertextuality and politeness. Intertextuality allows a text to incorporate other texts and to draw upon connotations that belong to those texts. READ MORE
