Titlebook: Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures; Karen Grainger,Sara Mills Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Dire

Definitive

标准

CREST

Zimbabwean English and British English: A Case Study of Directness and Indirectness Across Culturesers, the concepts of ‘directness’, ‘indirectness’ and ‘culture’ remain complex and not unproblematic. Since neither ‘culture’ nor ‘(in)directness’ can be assumed to be absolute or monolithic, in this chapter we investigate the way that the community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 1998), th

啮齿动物

Situated Directness and Indirectness: Monolingual English Speakers,backgrounds are, the more different will be their assumptions about what is conventional. In such cases of difference — as illustrated in Chapter 4 — there is the potential for misattribution of polite intention. By conducting a detailed qualitative analysis of certain illustrative interactions, we

束以马具

,Linguistic Ideologies: Bilingual Speakers’ Evaluations of Indirectness and Directness,tigate the linguistic ideologies about the use of and perceptions of indirectness and directness. Our aim was not to argue that there is a simple dichotomy between English and other languages, and we stressed this point to our interviewees, so that they would feel able to talk about similarities and

Evolve

Conclusions,rectness or indirectness have a tendency to be evaluated differently, because of linguistic ideologies at play within particular cultures, and because of the different enregistered uses of these forms, which constitute resources for individual speakers and hearers. Thus, we have argued it is importa

Substance-Abuse

窝转脊椎动物

Theoretical Perspectives on Indirectness,989), de Kadt (1998) and Ogiermann (2009) are just some of the studies that focus on indirectness in the realisation of speech acts across various languages. Similarly, a number of textbooks in the area feature indirectness as a theme for discussion (for example, Wierzbicka, 2003; Bowe and Martin, 2

Presbycusis

炸坏

Zimbabwean English and British English: A Case Study of Directness and Indirectness Across Culturesn (for example, Blum-Kulka et al., 1989; Holtgraves, 1997; Wierzbicka, 2003) probably largely due to two factors: a) much of the thinking about directness and indirectness has focused on perceived cultural differences in languages in relation to English, and this linguistic ideology of difference ha