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2017
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(2017): Children’s early awareness of the effect of interpersonal status on politeness. In: Journal of Politeness Research 13 (1). DOI: 10.1515/pr-2014-0016
Abstract: This study discusses two Mandarin-speaking children's linguistic politeness through longitudinally observing their uses of request forms with regard to different interactional situations where their interpersonal status may vary accordingly. It seems that the children demonstrate a systematic correspondence between request forms and directness to adhere to politeness at an early age. Although they apparently prefer to utilize comparatively more direct request forms most of the time, a closer investigation reveals a division of labor: they appear to use simple imperatives when their interpersonal status is either superior or equal to their parents and use declaratives with the lexeme WANT when their interpersonal status is inferior. It is therefore suggested that politeness may be mutually negotiated between interlocutors and that children should get socialized with politeness through interaction with adults or other children within various social or interpersonal relationships.
Keywords: Direkte oder indirekte Art der Fragestellung/Formulierung etc., Familie/Eltern-Kinder, Grammatische Elemente (Lexeme u.a.), Kommunikations-/Interaktionsprinzipien, Situationsbedingter Kontext, Social Rank, Soziale Hierarchie, Sprachgebrauch, Sprachverstehen, time, Verhalten von Höherstehenden gegenüber Niedrigstehenden, Verhalten von Niedrigstehenden gegenüber Höherstehenden, want 2007
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(2007): Conceptualizing face and relational work in (im)politeness. Revelations from politeness lexemes and idioms in Turkish. In: Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4), S. 681-711. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.013 Abstract: This article addresses two issues: the conceptualization of face and related aspects of self in Turkish, and the implications of the conceptualization of face and the self in interaction in Turkish for understanding relational work at the emic and the etic levels. The paper analyses two root lexemes and idioms derived from the lexemes in Turkish, which are posited as being crucial to understanding (im)politeness and relational work in Turkish culture, and discusses the implications of the analysis for conceptualizing relational work. It maintains that cultures may foreground different aspects of self toward which people show sensitivity in relational work, and that concerns over transactional issues are a major component of relational work.
1994
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(1994): Emphatic speech style - with special focus on the prosodic signalling of heightened emotive involvement in conversation. In: Journal of Pragmatics 22 (3-4), S. 375-408. DOI: 10.1016/0378-2166(94)90116-3
Abstract: After a review of previous work on the prosody of emotional involvement, data extracts from natural conversations are analyzed in order to argue for the constitution of an 'emphatic (speech) style', which linguistic devices are used to signal heightened emotive involvement. Participants use prosodic cues, in co-occurrence with syntactic and lexical cues, to contexturalize turn-constructional units as 'emphatic'. Only realizations of prosodic categories that are marked in relation to surrounding uses of these categories have the power to contextualize units as displaying 'more-than-normal involvement'. In the appropriate context, and in co-occurrence with syntactic and lexical cues and sequential position, the context-sensitive interpretation of this involvement is 'emphasis'. Prosodic marking is used in addition to various unmarked cues that signal and constitute different activity types in conversation. Emphatic style highlights and reinforms particular conversational activities, and makes certain types of recipient responses locally relevant. In particular, switches from non-emphatic to emphatic style are used to contextualize 'peaks of involvement' or 'climaxes' in story-telling. These are shown in the paper to be 'staged' by speakers and treated by recipients as marked activities calling for displays of alignment with respect to the matter at hand. Signals of emphasis are deployable as techniques for locally organizing demonstrations of shared understanding and participant reciprocity in conversational interaction.
Keywords: emphatic speech style, Emphatischer Sprachstil, Erzählweise, Grammatische Elemente (Lexeme u.a.), Konversationsanalyse, lexical cues, narrative, POWER, prosodic cues, Reziprozität, Signalisieren von Verstehen, Sprachgebrauch, Sprachstil, Sprechmelodie/Prosody, Stimme / Prosodie, syntactic cues, Syntax 1993
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(1993): New Zealand women are good to talk to. An analysis of politeness strategies in interaction. In: Journal of Pragmatics 20 (2), S. 91-116. DOI: 10.1016/0378-2166(93)90078-4
Abstract: This paper compares evidence from New Zealand women's and men's talk regarding amount of speech, interruptions, the use of pragmatic particles and the distribution of apologies and compliments to support an argument that women are ideal speaker-hearers. Women's other-oriented behaviour makes them ideal conversational partners.
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