Essays about: "linguistic politeness"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words linguistic politeness.

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. WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOU USE ENGLISH AT WORK? A STUDY OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHINA

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Huan Luo; [2023-02-17]
   Keywords : English; English as a lingua franca; ELF; intercultural communication; workplace; multinational corporations; MNCs; China;

   Abstract : This study investigated when Chinese business professionals use English as a lingua franca to communicate in the workplace, what changes, and why and how the changes happen. 14 respondents who had Chinese as L1 and English as at least one of their working languages participated in the open-ended questions survey. 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. Sorry, I apologize! : The difference between men’s and women’s usage of apologies in emails

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

   Author : Gustav Lindroth; Rebecca Ucar; [2022]
   Keywords : Email; Enron Corpus; apologetic expressions; politeness; gender;

   Abstract : This essay aims to discover differences and similarities in the linguistic behavior ofpoliteness in apologetic expressions between men and women in emails. Material wastaken from the Enron Corpus. This Corpus includes information about the senders andrecipients of the chosen email, the context, and an email thread. READ MORE

6. 5. Multilingual literature in a Swedish classroom : A sequential analysis regarding code-switching in This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Aso Mohamad; [2020]
   Keywords : Code-switching; Education; politeness; Sequential analysis;

   Abstract : This essay explores sociolinguistic implications in the novel This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz. I investigate this literary work of Diaz in terms of the usage of code-switching by applying an adaptation of conversation analysis and a theoretical framework provided by Brown and Levinson (1999) that suggests that code-switching can be used to achieve interactional goals with other speakers. READ MORE