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Effects of positive politeness strategies in business letters

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2010
Brown and Levinson's (1987) typology of politeness strategies, derived from the basic wants of a model person, leaves the question unanswered as to what extent these strategies are perceived and evaluated as contributions to the quality of communication.
Frank Jansen, Daniel Janssen
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The Politics of Positioning

2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2005
On the basis that academics, engineers and operators understand the technical aspects of GNSS but rarely consider institutional issues, this paper describes some of the political considerations associated with GPS, Galileo and Loran.
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Statistical Political Philosophy and Positive Political Theory

Critical Review, 1995
Green and Shapiro's tour de force fails as a convincing critique of rational choice applications in political science because it locks itself into a statistical form of assessment. Rather than seeing the constructive side of rational choice theory, both as an engine of theoretical development and as a source of non‐obvious empirical insights about ...
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Positive Political Theory and Politics in Contemporary India: An Application of a Positive Political Model in Non-Western Politics

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2002
This article argues against the apparent aversion to apply positive political models in the comparative literature on non-Western politics. To provide an example of the utility of such models, the article draws on Peter Van Roozendaal's game theoretical model of cabinet stability to account for the instability of coalition governments in India.
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Positive Politeness and Negative Politeness in Didactic Communication – Landmarks in Teaching Methodology

open access: yesProcedia, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Didactic communication involves the usage of positive and negative politeness at all levels (verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal) concerning the interaction teacher – student. This reality is reflected in the present paper by the answers provided by a group
Hobjilă, Angelica
exaly   +2 more sources

Positioning Political Parties

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 1996
Political parties enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the media. Like commercial organizations, parties must know where they stand in their “market.” Marketing is not an activity that political parties may indulge in at their discretion; it is a constant and necessary political function that they attend to implicitly or explicitly, successfully or ...
Neil Collins, Patrick Butler
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Positively Valenced, Calming Political Ads

Journal of Media Psychology, 2013
We investigated whether political print ads were able to moderate the influence of automatic affective gut reactions (i.e., implicit attitudes) on overtly expressed evaluations (i.e., explicit attitudes) of foreigners. In accordance with the feeling-as-information theory ( Schwarz, 2012 , In Van Lange et al.
Arendt, Florian   +2 more
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Positive politics.

The Canadian journal of medical radiation technology, 1990
The term "playing politics" usually brings to mind undesirable qualities such as manipulation, power abuse and overt self-interest. Yet politics is a constant in daily life and indeed is very necessary in gaining support for both personal and corporate projects.
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