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Applicability of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory to a Non-Western Culture [PDF]

, 2012
To examine applicability of Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory to facework in a non-Western culture, we conducted a questionnaire survey of native Japanese speakers.
Sachiko Kiyama, Katsuo Tamaoka, Masato Takiura   +2 more
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Revisiting Brown and Levinson's Theory of Politeness

European Journal of Language and Culture Studies
This paper aims at revisiting Brown & Levinson framework in order to reduce the total number of positive politeness strategies from fifteen to seven high order Pos Pol strategies, and the number of negative politeness from ten to five high order Neg Pol ...
Said Fathi
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Im)politeness theory [PDF]

, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research on language in the workplace written by top scholars in the field from around the world.
Michael Haugh, Yasuhisa Watanabe
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Analyzing politeness and refusal speech acts in popular Chinese television drama series

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study examined rejection dialogues (refusals) in three popular Chinese TV dramas namely ‘Longing’, ‘The Happy Life of Zhang Damin’, and ‘Family with Children’ through the lens of speech act theory and refusal theory.
Ying Li, Wari Wongwaropakorn
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Linguistic Hedging In The Light Of Politeness Theory

, 2018
Fuzziness is one of the objective characteristics of human language, which makes it flexible and reliable. The core of fuzzy language is hedging.
Gayane R. Vlasyan
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The Study of EFL Students’ Requests Based on Politeness Theory

, 2013
This study is carried out to see if the politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987) is applicable to data elicited from EFL students attending a language institute in Iran.
Azadeh Elmianvari, Reza Kheirabadi
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A study of the polite method in the Arabic language according to Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2023
Polite method is one of the important issues in communication, as it paves the way for a successful communication with the addressee and prevents pragmatics failure.
Mohamadali Ameri, Ali Zeighami, Sayyed Reza Mirahmadi   +2 more
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POLITENESS STRATEGIES ANALYSIS REFLECTED IN LITTLE WOMEN MOVIE BY GRETA GERWIG

Getsempena English Education Journal, 2021
This research mostly discusses the politeness strategies that is shown in Little Women movie. Politeness is a social behaviour to a speaker towards deferent wishes of the addressee in different concerns.
Fridolini Fridolini, Dwi Asih Arisena, Kurnia Idawati   +2 more
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POLITENESS STRATEGY PERFORMED IN SATU JAM LEBIH DEKAT TALK SHOW ON TV ONE: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

ELTALL, 2021
Talk show program on TV One is a program that uses language as a means of communication. To create the success of cummunication, it needs a strategy. This study aims to find out the politeness srategies used in Satu Jam Lebih Dekat talk show on TV One ...
Nur Aini Syah
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A Theory of Political Entrenchment [PDF]

The Economic Journal, 2012
Can an incumbent political party increase its chances at re-election by implementing inefficient policies that harm its constituency? This paper studies the possibility of such a phenomenon, which we label political entrenchment. We use a two-party dynamic model of redistribution with probabilistic voting. Political entrenchment by the Left occurs only
Gilles Saint-Paul, TICCHI, DAVIDE, VINDIGNI, ANDREA   +2 more
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