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Investigating Politeness in Spoken Language: Students’ Inquisition Towards Lecturers

Investigating Politeness in Spoken Language: Students’ Inquisition Towards Lecturers. AHMAD SUHAIRI BIN MOHAMED SUHAIMI P64321. Background of Study Some cultures stress on politeness when they communicate with other people

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Investigating Politeness in Spoken Language: Students’ Inquisition Towards Lecturers

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  1. Investigating Politeness in Spoken Language: Students’ Inquisition Towards Lecturers AHMAD SUHAIRI BIN MOHAMED SUHAIMI P64321

  2. Background of Study • Some cultures stress on politeness when they communicate with other people • Sometimes, words chose by students do not much reflect their politeness • Impoliteness can lead to communication breakdown

  3. Statement of Problem • Bayles (2009), she stated that Brown and Levinson (1987) stressed that politeness is important. • Yule (2008) - awareness • Unable to save face – leads to Face Threatening Acts (FTAs) • Impoliteness – affect teaching and learning process (Bacha, Bahous and Diab, 2012)

  4. Purpose of Study • To find out the existence of politeness during inquisition process among students and lecturers • To find out the differences between strategies used • To find out how Brown and Levinson’s theories related to the strategies used by students

  5. Research Questions • What are the politeness markers identified when students ask their lecturers? • What are the differences between male and female politeness strategies? • How are Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies related with students’ politeness during inquisition process?

  6. Review of Literature • Politeness Markers • All language possess politeness markers (Ardila, 2008) • Negative politeness – hedging – introduces several different categories of politeness markers. • Politeness markers used by male were roughly equal to female (Hobbs, 2003)

  7. Gender • Bacha, Bahous and Diab (2012),focusing on gender and politeness in foreign language academic context • As cited in Bacha, Bahous and Diab (2012) - Lakoff (1975) – Women used more indirect request than male

  8. Brown and Levinson Politeness Strategies • Bacha, Bahous and Diab (2012), they stated that Mao (1994) criticized the theory • Kitamura (2000) concluded that the Brown and Levinson politeness theory can be a powerful tool to analyze politeness

  9. Methodology • Qualitative study

  10. Selection of sampling • 6-8 participants • Convenience sampling

  11. Data Analysis • Conversation Analysis • Students will be interviewed • Audio recorded will be transcribed – Jefferson Notation Theory

  12. References • Ardila, J. A. G. 2008. Metapragmatic First- Order Politeness In Peninsula Spanish. University of Edinburgh: Britain • Bacha, N. N, Bahous, R. & Diab, R. L. 2012. Gender and Politeness in a Foreign Language Academic Context. • Bayles, R. 2009. An Investigation into politeness, small talk and gender. Vol 1: 2008-2009. The University of Nothingham. • Hobbs, P. 2003. The medium is the message: politeness strategies in men’s and women’s voice mail messages. University of California: Los Angeles • Kitamura, N. 2000. Adapting Brown and Levinson’s ‘politeness’ theory to the analysis of casual conversation. School of European, Asian & Middle Eastern Languages & Studies. University of Sydney: Australia • Svarova, J. 2008. Politeness Markers in Spoken Languge. Masaryk University Brno

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