Titlebook: Politeness Across Cultures; Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (Honorary Associate P Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

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On the Concept of Face and Politenessa positive social image akin to identity. In recent years, research and debate on the concept of ‘face’ have grown exponentially, so that Watts (2005: xxviii) is right in contending that it “has become an area of research in its own right”. The concept of ‘face’ is assumed to have originated in Chin

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Why Are Israeli Children Better at Settling Disputes Than Israeli Politicians? political practices and practices connected to sports. A related metaphor, probably unique to Israeli political culture,. and used especially for news coverage of parliamentary debates, is politics as a ‘kindergarten’.. For Israelis, this metaphor suggests a basic similarity in the behaviour in con

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Korean Honorifics and ‘Revealed’, ‘Ignored’ and ‘Suppressed’ Aspects of Korean Culture and Politenessgs and vocabulary substitutions the speaker is able to express subtle degrees of deference towards the hearer or sentence referents. At times, this results in sentences of identical referential meaning being rendered in altogether different ways depending on whether the speaker is addressing (or ref

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Modern Chinese Politeness Revisitedent volume is mainly concerned with linguistic politeness, Gu’s paper (1990) provides an easy solution. Additionally, a good amount of research produced during the interim period is related to his research in one way or another. This chapter therefore first makes a round-up review of the existing li

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Modes of Address Between Female Staff in Georgian Professional Discourse: Medical and Academic Contextson the theories of Brown and Levinson (1987) and Scollon and Scollon (2001). She was interested largely in a comparative analysis of face-saving strategies in Georgian and English. Her work, however, has been published only in Georgian and is not accessible to the majority of researchers in the fiel

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Indirectness in Zimbabwean English: A Study of Intercultural Communication in the UKdies, probably largely due to perceived cultural differences between different groups around the world and to the potential ambiguity and miscommunication that can result from this (Tannen 1984). This fact alone suggests that the notion of indirectness is an important one in intercultural pragmatics

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