Search results for "Politeness"
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"Oh, that is just such crap, you cowardly, dysfunctional little schmuck!" : impoliteness in the dialogues of H. Fielding's novels Bridget Jones's dia…
2005
Cortesía entre fronteras. Los jesuitas expulsos y el debate sobre la civilidad en el siglo XVIII: Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro y Francisco Aznar
2019
Resumen: Este trabajo estudia la aportación de los jesuitas expulsos en el siglo XVIII al debate sobre el carácter universal o culturalmente específico de la civilidad, a partir del análisis de dos obras de Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro y Francisco Aznar (la Historia de la vida del hombre y la Instrucción civil y cristiana), ambas versiones castellanas de obras publicadas en italiano. Se argumenta que la experiencia personal y colectiva de los miembros de la Compañía de Jesús como misioneros y como exiliados en Italia tras la expulsión de los territorios de la monarquía hispánica propició una reflexión de particular interés sobre la dimensión universal de la urbanidad, sobre sus aspectos relativ…
Troubled Talk in Cross-cultural Business Emails. A digital Conversation Analysis of Interactions
2018
This study analyses the troubled talk occurring in an exchange of business emails between an Italian manufacturing company's general manager, his staff and their Pakistani consultants. The exchange is a communicative event in which conflicts (i.e. troubles) arise due to a variety of causes: the computer-mediated communication, the use of English as a Lingua Franca, the cultural differences between interactants and the stressful nature of the situation. Set in the tradition of studies which look at issues of intercultural differences in communication, (Katan 2006; Cucchi 2010; Manca 2016), this research addresses the question of the ongoing adaptation between high context and low context com…
Descortesía en las páginas de Facebook de festivales de música
2015
El presente artículo se centra en las interacciones que se desarrollan en Facebook (FB), el conocido sitio web de redes sociales que también es un recurso para la comunicación, y la promoción turística. Nos planteamos caracterizar este contexto sociocultural específico, que abarca comportamientos, actitudes y valores conocidos, aceptados y practicados en una comunidad discursiva, para luego describir el fenómeno de la descortesía en un corpus acotado de páginas de Facebook de festivales musicales, ofreciendo algunas reflexiones sobre sus características y sus funciones. This article focuses on interaction in Facebook (FB), as one of the best known and effective social media networks for mar…
On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video
2011
Abstract The overall aim of this paper is to investigate impoliteness in a particular on-line polylogal setting – YouTube postings (c. 13,000 words) triggered by the ‘Obama Reggaeton’ video, which was released during the 2008 US democratic primaries. This is done through integration of quantitative/qualitative analytic tools and of (im)politeness1 and (im)politeness 2 approaches. A two-prong experimental study is used in order to examine impoliteness realisation and interpretation in the corpus. Findings reveal clear patterns in the realisation of impoliteness strategies, including a preference for on-record impoliteness saliently oriented towards attacking the positive face needs of one's …
A multimodal analysis of facework strategies in a corpus of charity ads on British television
2013
Abstract The aim of this article is to carry out a qualitative multimodal analysis of the codification of verbal and non-verbal politeness strategies in a sub-corpus of five charity commercials aired on British television. Brown and Levinson's (1987) verbal politeness strategies are taken as a starting point together with a detailed analysis of facework that is realized through paralinguistic and extralinguistic modes of communication ( Kress and van Leeuwen, 2006 , Machin, 2010 ). In what we have identified as the problem phase of the commercial, our analysis has revealed that advertisers deliberately attempt to create threats to the viewer's positive and negative face by making him/her fe…
Online Intercultural Dialogue: “Failed” Communication in a Telecollaboration Project
2021
Over the past two decades, the development of computer-mediated communication technologies has modified human communication. Increasingly, representatives from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds are disposed to a constant negotiation of meanings. The main purpose of this study is to carry out a linguistically grounded analysis of the intercultural dialogue during online asynchronous written exchanges between Latvian and Cypriot students.Based on the politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1987), which implies that all adult members of society are endowed with two universal aspects: “positive face” and “negative face”, and using the methods of content analysis and discourse analysi…
Atenuación en el discurso de los participantes no profesionales de los juicios orales. ¿Un caso de lenguaje débil?
2020
El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar la manera en que se manifiesta la atenuación en los participantes no profesionales de los juicios orales. Tradicionalmente, se ha vinculado el empleo de recursos relacionados con la atenuación (como los hedges o las fórmulas de cortesía) con el lenguaje débil, pues las personas que usan estos recursos en su declaración limitan su compromiso con lo dicho y son percibidas como menos creíbles y menos inteligentes (Erickson, Lind, Johnson & O'Barr, 1978). No obstante, tras analizar un corpus de 12 juicios orales españoles pertenecientes al juzgado de lo penal, se ha comprobado que el uso de estos y otros recursos que se asocian con la atenuación pueden p…
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English. The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
2013
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicative (in)directness – within broader politeness orientations – of speakers of different languages, specifically an orientation towards directness in Peninsular Spanish vis-à-vis indirectness in British English. The aim of this paper is thus to invest…
Teaching linguistic politeness: a methodological proposal
2003
The aim of this article is to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of the teaching of pragmatics in a second language. Taking as point of departure the pragmatic continuum, which includes pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics, we focus on the promotion of sociopragmatic knowledge in classroom contexts. More specifically, it is argued that a revised contextual and interactional view of Brown and Levinson¿s (1987) model of linguistic politeness, related to such notions as genre and politeness systems, offers suitable tools of pragmatic description for use in teaching and learning second languages. We start with a brief overview of linguistic politeness from a socio-cognitive framewo…