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Interventions of speakers of Polish and British parliaments in the light of politeness theory
2021
Abstract The present study attempts to analyze the interventions of Speakers of Polish and British Parliaments in the selected exchanges from 2018 to 2019 in terms of discourse-sensitive politeness theory advanced by Jonathan Culpeper. He proposes to use three types of impoliteness that affect three types of interlocutors’ faces via a range of impoliteness strategies. In the analyses we consider the linguistic, personal, and cultural as well as political context of the exchanges against the background of the unique, historically rooted institutional circumstances, with a special emphasis on the role of different physical contexts of respective Parliamentary chambers. We emphasize the discur…
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…
Power and politeness in historical novels set during the American Civil War
2015
Kommunikointi komentajien ja alaisten välillä on perusedellytys sotilasoperaatioiden onnistumiselle. Tällaista kommunikaatiota tarkastellessaan tutkijat ovat nostaneet esille komentajien väliset valtasuhteet, muodollisen vs. epämuodollisen vuorovaikutuksen, spesifin sotilasdiskurssin ja pyrkimyksen maksimaaliseen tehokkuuteen vuorovaikutuksen keinoin. Tämä tutkielma tarkastelee, millä keinoin sotilaskomentajat ilmaisevat keskinäisiä valtasuhteitaan Amerikan sisällissotaan sijoittuvien romaanien dialogissa. Tutkielman pääasialliseksi teoriakehykseksi valittiin vuorovaikutuksellista sosiolingvistiikkaa edustava Brownin ja Levinsonin kohteliaisuusteoria, jonka pääpaino keskittyy keskustelukump…