SOCIOLINGUISTICS Gender‚ Politeness and Stereotypes a. Woman’s Language and Confidence Some dialectologist argued that women were using language which reinforced their sub-ordinate status. Social dialect research focused on differences between women’s and men’s speech. Robin Lakoff identified a number of linguistic features used more often by women. He suggested that women’s speech was characterized by linguistics features like: o Lexical hedges or fillers (e.g. you know‚ sort of
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HCMC University of Pedagogy – English department A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF INVITATION’S REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE Student: Dang Thi To Nhu Class: 4A07 Instructor: Ph.D Nguyen Ngoc Vu December 2010 Invitation‟s refusal strategies 1 Introduction Human communication is a combination of cooperation and understanding. Success in communication depends greatly on the ability to recognize speakers‟ communicative intentions and pragmatic meaning of their utterances
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Chapter 3: The Self and Perception I. The Self in Human Communication A. Self-concept— your image of who you are; how you perceive yourself: your feelings & thoughts about your strengths & weaknesses‚ your abilities & limitations. 1. Develops from 4 sources a. The images that others have of you (those most significant to your life- if they think highly of you‚ you will see a positive self-image reflected in their behaviors; if they think little of you‚ you will see a more negative
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vinh university foreign language department ==== (((==== A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF GIVING COMPLIMENTS and responses IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE (nghiên cỨU GIAO THOA VĂN HÓA VỀ CÁCH KHEN VÀ ĐÁP LẠI LỜI KHEN TRONG TIẾNG aNH VÀ TIẾNG VIỆT ) graduation paper fIELD: lINGUISTICS Student: TRUONG THI THANH CANH‚ 47A1 Supervisor: BUI THI THANH MAI (M.A) Vinh - 2010 Acknowledgement I would first like specially to thank Mrs
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great deal of attention in a variety of disciplines philosophy‚ sociology‚ psychology‚ law‚ Journal of Politeness Research 3 (2007)‚ 11 37 DOI
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of speech. In this essay‚ the analysis of structural features promotes a closer understanding of how speech develops through themes that contribute to its structure. Subjects analysed are: topic and context; speech acts and conditional relevance; politeness; adjacency pairs and insertion sequence; turn construction and transition relevance places; turn taking and overlap; pause and repairs. The essential comprehension of a conversation is connected with its contribution towards a topic. As Wardhaugh
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Despite the significant role of politeness in communicative situations‚ Brown and Levinson (1987) contend that‚ beside politeness‚ every communicative act is fraught with perilous face-threatening acts (Kasper‚ 1990). Moreover‚ they claim that considering other aspects of “face” may allow a broader view of the facts that can help to avoid the polarity splitting the concept into Positive and Negative politeness (Bargiela-Chiappini‚ 2003). This proclamation has won the support of various writers
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Table of contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Politeness a theoretical approach 3 3. the concept of limao 4 4. Request strategies 4 4.1. Request strategies in Chinese 4 4.2. Request strategies in English 5 5. Forms of address 6 5.1. Forms of address in Chinese 6 5.2. Forms of address in English 7 6. Chinese: Politeness across social groups 8 7. Conclusion 9 References 11 1. Introduction In many parts of this world‚ former existing borders are removed and people
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In order to achieve these goals the speakers often resort to language skills among other things. Among these language skills‚ politeness language can serve these purposes properly and effectively. Therefore the presidents and their speech writing teams often choose politeness principles as they are more likely to succeed with them. Politeness principle The politeness principle and its maxims belong to major concepts discussed in the field of pragmatics. Pragmatics is often defined as the study
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Language and Gender What evidence is there to show that men and women behave very differently in conversation? How do linguists account for these differences? Language is a tool that is believed to be unique to the human species. It is believed that on earth we are the only species to have developed the capacity to utilise language as a tool. It is considered to be the most powerful tool that we as modern humans have in our arsenal as it allows us to pass on our knowledge from one generation
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