This study investigates certain crucial aspects of politeness used by Saudi male students using English as a Second Language (ESL) in their discourse through electronic mail (e-mail). There are two purposes in this study: (1) to examine the politeness strategies used by ESL stud…
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This sociolinguistic study of the politeness behavior of two Chinese Indonesian mother daughter pairs in Surabaya, Indonesia, was conducted qualitatively to find out how their language reveals the concept of politeness. The study is also aimed to find out whether there is any la…
The main purpose of the thesis is to explore the characteristics of politeness which are conveyed by the use of Japanese honorific forms (i.e honorific politeness). The perspective of the research is as follows: 1) the concept of politeness is regarded as being wider in scope th…
This study investigated how the speech act of refusal is realized in Egyptian Arabic by intermediate and advanced American learners of Arabic as a foreign language. It also compared the performance of the learners to that of native speakers of Egyptian Arabic and native speakers…
This dissertation is an conversation analytical study on the sequential organization of politeness in native-nonnative speakers' interaction. The Persian politeness phenomenon of taarof was identified and analyzed in telephone conversation openings and offers. Taarof is a system…
Guided by intergroup contact theory, social identity theory, and politeness theory, this experimental study examined the effects of the target's Muslim religious identity salience (high and low) and message politeness strategies (direct and indirect) on non-Muslim American parti…
The thesis investigates ways of communicating gratitude are perceived and realised in Jordan and England. It focuses on the impact of several variables on the expression of gratitude and examines the differences between the data elicited by pragmatic research instruments (DCT an…