Search results for "Politeness"
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The Translation of Sex-Related Language: The Danger(s) of Self-Censorship(s)1
2009
While censorship is an external constraint on what we can publish or (re)write, self-censorship is an individual ethical struggle between self and context. In all historical circumstances, translators tend to produce rewritings which are ‘acceptable’ from both social and personal perspectives. The translation of swearwords and sex-related language is a case in point, which very often depends on historical and political circumstances, and is also an area of personal struggle, of ethical/moral dissent, of religious/ideological controversies. In this paper we analyse the translation of the lexeme fuck into Spanish and Catalan. We have chosen two novels by Helen Fielding—Bridget Jones’s Diary (…
Violent women in Spanish TV ads: Stereotype reversal or the same old same old?
2016
Why did different agencies, promoting diverse products, create three ads featuring violence perpetrated by women on their rather immature and submissive male partners in order to sell their products? I posit that the female viewers connect subconsciously with the image of the proactive female protagonists through the psychological mechanism in which we identify with ‘our like’ on the screen. This, in turn, allows for the projection of ‘common ground’, a positive politeness strategy, to favourably dispose the female audience towards the protagonists and, by extension, the products advertised. The success of these ads depends on women viewers identifying with the apparently dominant female pr…
Valoda: nozīme un forma 8. Valodas gramatiskās un leksiskās sistēmas variatīvums
2017
Valsts pētījumu programmas „Letonika – Latvijas vēsture, valodas, kultūra, vērtības” projekta Nr. 3 „Latviešu valodas pētījumi 21. gadsimta zinātnes kontekstā” apakšprojekts „Latviešu valodas gramatika / Latvian Grammar”
Making sense of the senseless : the management of problematic questions in the Noriko Show
2008
”You’re orange, you moron!” : The use of impoliteness strategies in the American TV-series House M.D.
2010
Ihmisten välistä kommunikointia määrittävät tietyt säännöt, jotka eivät ole synnynnäisiä, vaan jotka opimme kasvaessamme. Esimerkiksi kohteliaisuus on ilmiö, johon törmäämme lähes päivittäin erilaisissa sosiaalisissa tilanteissa. Olemme kohteliaita antaaksemme itsestämme hyvän kuvan, luodaksemme toimivia ihmissuhteita ja säilyttääksemme ne. Kohteliaisuuden vastakohta, epäkohteliaisuus, ei myöskään enää nykypäivänä ole lainkaan harvinainen ilmiö, ja siitä syystä sitä tulisi tutkia aivan kuten kohteliaisuuttakin. Television katselu on jatkuvasti lisääntynyt ja ohjelmatarjonta monipuolistunut. Vanhat konseptit eivät enää riitä, vaan on keksittävä jatkuvasti uudenlaisia ideoita, jotta sarjast…
The Phono(im)politeness: (Dis)courtesy prosodic marks in Spanish spoken. Their study via oral corpus
2013
En este artículo se intenta mostrar la relevancia de los mecanismos fónicos, y particularmente de la entonación, para la expresión de cortesía o descortesía verbales. La descripción de tal relación se lleva a cabo a partir de una selección de fragmentos de habla que han servido para fundamentar nuestra hipótesis de partida y que proceden de un corpus diverso: por un lado, de conversaciones coloquiales (Briz y Grupo Val.Es.Co, 2002); por otro, de dos series de TV emitidas por la cadena Antena 3 (Manos a la obra, capítulo: "¡Cómo está el patio!" y Doctor Mateo, capítulo: "De cómo Mateo comprende que eso que siente son celos y no indigestión") y, finalmente, otros son ejemplos derivados de inv…
(Im)politeness in Service Encounters
2017
This chapter examines sociopragmatic research on commercial service encounters. It offers a precis of the studies that have utilised service encounters as a vehicle to examine (Im)politeness manifestations. It addresses the methodological advantages of the service encounter as a relatively formalised interactional site in which sociability and efficiency are managed, hence as a locus for the emergence of (Im)politeness orientations. The chapter traces the evolution of (Im)politeness research and discusses the complexities of capturing (Im)politeness practices in transformation: from face-to-face and telephone-mediated encounters to newer communicative arenas resulting from technological adv…
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…
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…
Researching Identity and L2 Pragmatics in Digital Stories: A Relational Account.
2020
This study explores college EFL learners' construction of identity through the analysis of their pragmatic choices in digital stories, in which they narrated their relationship with another person they had helped in the past. More specifically, such choices were examined following Relational Dialectics Theory in learners' enactments of "connection" with and "autonomy" from this person. A specific view of identity in language education, the notion of "relational work" in (im)politeness research, and a social semiotic framework were also employed in data analysis. Learners' pragmatic choices ranged from the selection of the topic of their narratives according to types of social bonds, to the …