Essays about: "politeness theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words politeness theory.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. Expressing deference and intimacy concurrently with honorifics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Patrik Lindqvist Rombe; [2023]
   Keywords : ssu; shinkeigo; honorifics; politeness; Japanese language; intimacy; deference; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study is about ssu, a potential norm breaking honorific which reportedly can express intimacy and deference concurrently. While expressing intimacy and deference concurrently is incompatible with Brown and Levinson’s (1978 as cited in Hasegawa, 2015) politeness theory, Hasegawa (2015) provides a modification of their theory that allows for it. 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. Do we even care about politeness anymore? : A mixed-methods study of societal perceptions on pragmatic competence in English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Nellie Lindqvist; [2022]
   Keywords : Cross-cultural pragmatics; ELF; speech-act theory; politeness theory; sociopragmatic competence; sociolinguistics;

   Abstract : Politeness is viewed as an admirable trait by most people, yet what it means to be polite is arguably a controversial issue when it comes to using English, as people of different ages, education levels, and proficiency levels use English daily, and may have different views on politeness. These observations raise questions about whether there are certain universal pragmatic rules, or if pragmatic rules are primarily language- and/or culture-specific. READ MORE