Excuse Me
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Published: 2009
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ISBN-13: 9788961753159
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Learning Politeness
Author: Ian Walkinshaw
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9783039115273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand. Specifically, it investigates how they learned to produce and interpret a range of disagreement strategies during oppositional talk with native speakers of English. Employing a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to data analysis, the book discusses the initial pragmatic competence of the learners, and describes how their competence developed over a ten-week period. The book outlines some points of cultural divergence which may have influenced the direction and the extent of the learners' pragmatic development. It also sheds light on the language-acquisition strategies utilised by the learners during their tenure in the host culture. Most crucially, the book illuminates patterns of directness and indirectness in the learners' selected disagreement strategies. These patterns challenge the generally accepted theory that politeness always increases with social distance.
Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning
Author: Lucien Brown
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9027286973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity of “language learners” and “foreigners” in Korean society. In addition, it shows the influence of conflicting ideologies regarding the “meaning” of “politeness”. This argument is backed up by rich data collected through mixed methods (discourse completion tests, role-plays, natural interactions, introspective interviews), allowing for a detailed picture of how the honorifics use of second language speakers emerges in context. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the study for politeness research, interlanguage pragmatics and language pedagogy.
Be Polite and Kind
Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Published: 2003-12-15
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1575428032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen children are kind, courteous, and respectful, people enjoy being around them and reciprocate with the same behavior. This book helps kids understand the importance of showing politeness, speaking kindly, using basic courtesies (“please,” “thank you,” “excuse me”), and respecting the feelings of others. Scenarios and role-play activities help adults reinforce the book’s lessons.
Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness
Author: Barbara Pizziconi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1501501658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection combines research from the field of (im)politeness studies with research on language pedagogy and language learning. It aims to engender a useful dialogue between (im)politeness theorists, language teachers, and SLA researchers, and also to broaden the enquiry to naturalistic contexts other than L2 acquisition classrooms, by formulating 'teaching' and 'learning' as processes of socialization, cultural transmission, and adaptation.
Politeness in Professional Contexts
Author: Dawn Archer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9027260850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch like in everyday life, politeness is key to the smooth running of relationships and interactions. Professional contexts, however, tend to be characterised by a plethora of behaviours that may be specific to that context. They include ‘polite’ behaviours, ‘impolite’ behaviours and behaviours that arguably fall somewhere between – or outside – such concepts. The twelve chapters making up this edited collection explore these behaviours in a range of communication contexts representative of business, medical, legal and security settings. Between them, the contributions will help readers to theorize about – and in some cases operationalize (im)politeness and related behaviours for – these real-world settings. The authors take a broad, yet theoretically underpinned, definition of politeness and use it to help explain, analyse and inform professional interactions. They demonstrate the importance of understanding how interactions are negotiated and managed in professional settings. The edited collection has something to offer, therefore, to academics, professionals and practitioners alike.
Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning
Author: Lucien Brown
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9027256101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity of language learners and foreigners in Korean society. In addition, it shows the influence of conflicting ideologies regarding the meaning of politeness . This argument is backed up by rich data collected through mixed methods (discourse completion tests, role-plays, natural interactions, introspective interviews), allowing for a detailed picture of how the honorifics use of second language speakers emerges in context. The book concludes by discussing the implications of the study for politeness research, interlanguage pragmatics and language pedagogy."
The present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
Published: 1878
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The bee. Prefaces and introductions. Appendix
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
Published: 1845
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pragmatics of Politeness
Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0195341384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
