PPT-POLITENESS

PRAGMATICS U nderstanding concept P ostive politeness N egative politeness M axims of politeness INTRODUCTION In pragmatics when we talk of politeness we do not refer to the social rules of behavior . Sociopragmatic. Change in 19. th. -century British Newspaper Advertisements. Minna . palander-collin. Ipra. , . antwerp. . july. 2015 . themes. 19th-century . change. in . Advertisements. : . decreasing. Manaal Faruqui. Language Technologies Institute, CMU. (Work done at IIT Kharagpur, India). Sebastian Padó. Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany. Formal and informal address. Most languages distinguish . formal. Thomas Holtgraves. Dept. of Psychological Science. Ball State University. Overview. Overreliance on WEIRD participants distorts behavioral research; wrong to assume one can generalize from research with WEIRD Ps. Old and perennial issue in social psychology.. Language . and Social . Contexts. Language and Power: . Using . Frameworks to Analyse Talk. Basic questions when analysing talk…. Who seems to lead the talk?. . This means looking closely at how the talk moves on as each speaker takes his or her turn. These alternating turns are referred to as . Language and Culture. Anthropological linguists. Language and culture inseparable. Meaning comes from. A. spoken word. B. culturally agreed upon conventions about. 1. how words used and interpreted. 2. how they have been used in the past within a particular culture. Much of what we say and communicate is determined by our social relationships. In order to make sense of what is said in an interaction, . we have to look at . various . factors. of interaction which relate to . AND . SOCIOCUTURAL NORMS. Sociocultural Norms. Sociocultural norms, such as how to express politeness in a given context, guide pragmatic expression. For example, if someone asked you why we should say "Please" after making a request, what would you say? Your answer would be based on the sociocultural rules you are familiar with in Western societies and cultures.. Politeness Theory The theoretical framework of the present investigation is comprised of many of Brown and Levinson (1978) constructed their theory of politeness on the premise 22 coveted by th The . Uchi. /Soto . and . Meiwaku. . in Japanese sociocultural Behaviors. Kanae. Nakamura. Assistant Professor . Department of Japanese, . Tamkang. University. About the speaker. Female, in her thirties. used in same-sex and mixed talk. Positive Politeness Strategies. juxtaposing criticism with . compliments. establishing common . ground. in-group jargon and . slang. nicknames. Can anyone give me any examples? . Businessmen in the United States and Britain rarely have to endure a kiss on each cheek from another man. Even in countries where such greetings are common (Italy and Russia, for example), a kiss is generally reserved for relatives or good friends. A foreign businessman will have to do a lot of relationship-building to reach the point at which he is greeted with a kiss. When that happens, the easiest thing to do is to stay still and let the kiss-initiating person move his head. Otherwise your noses may collide!. Politeness . and . Likeability. . Navita. Jain. Motivation. Goal:. Model . influentiality. of known personalities on Twitter . Hypothesis:. People generally follow personalities who are likeable. Politeness . and . Likeability. . Navita. Jain. Data . Twitter data. 2 different types of data. For . likeability or attitude detection. : A dataset of tweets in which each influential or non-influential user is referred. . Being cooperatively ( im )polite: Grice’s model in the context of ( im )politeness theories Written by Marta Dynel Presented by Jianling Yue and Katelyn Loughman November 11, 2014 Outline Introduction