On apologising in negative and positive politeness cultures:
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1. Verfasser: Ogiermann, Eva (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2009
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond 191
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cross-cultural pragmatics -- The culture-specificity of politeness -- The speech act of apologising -- Literature review -- Methodological considerations -- Data collection -- Illocutionary force indicating devices: IFIDs -- Accounts -- Positive politeness apology strategies -- On the culture-specificity of apologies -- Conclusion
This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the correlation between indirectness and politeness underlying their theory. Their theory is applied to two languages that rely less heavily on indirectness in conveying politeness than does English, and to a speech act that does not become more polite through indirectness. An analysis of the face consi
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