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2012
House, Juliane (2012): (Im)politeness in cross-cultural encounters. In: Language and Intercultural Communication 12 (4), S. 284-301. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2012.722097

Abstract: In this article I will first discuss the notions of 'politeness' and 'impoliteness' including a multilevel model of politeness and impoliteness that relates universal levels to culture-and language-specific ones. Given this framework and my earlier postulation of a set of parameters along which members of two linguacultures differ in terms of communicative styles and preferences conventionally holding in a particular linguaculture, I will provide several examples of cross-cultural interactions in academic advising sessions. These examples will be discussed and some conclusions about misunderstandings in cross-cultural communication and ways to mitigate or avoid them will be drawn.

Keywords: communicative conventions, cross-cultural interaction, culture specificity, culture-specificity, English as a lingua franca, Höflichkeitsforschung, (Im)Politeness Research, Kultur, Linguistik, multilevel model of (im)politeness, Multilevel model of politeness, Sprachgebrauch, universality

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