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Politeness In Language

Politeness In Language. By: Eini Alnooroo , Jordiina ROCK!!!! And Vilmus Metsovaaraa! (Eini Alanärä, Jordi Rocha and Vilma Mettovaara ) . Explanation. Politeness can be best explained by showing consideration for others  and observance of accepted social usage.

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Politeness In Language

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  1. Politeness In Language By: Eini Alnooroo, Jordiina ROCK!!!! And Vilmus Metsovaaraa! (Eini Alanärä, JordiRocha and Vilma Mettovaara)

  2. Explanation • Politeness can be best explained by showing consideration for others  and observance of accepted social usage. •  It is a very cultural thing, and therefore what is considered polite in one culture can sometimes be considered rude or simply inappropriate in another culture. • English is either a very formal or a very rude language, this is due because in English there is only one "you" for everybody. For some people it can be quite a tricky situation to seem polite when meeting a new person. As in Spanish, German and French there are the words "Usted", "Sie" and "Vous".

  3. Politeness Strategies Positivepoliteness Negative politeness Try to impose the impose the hearer Intrudetheirpersonalspace Creates social distanceand awkwardness into the situation. • Usually in groups of friendsorwithpeoplewhoknoweachother • Ittries to takeaway the distancebetweenpeople • Expressesfriendliness • Intends to bring people closer • Respects interests

  4. Examples of politenessstrategies Positivepoliteness Negative politeness Be indirect:"I'm looking for a comb.“ Forgiveness:"You must forgive me but...." Minimize imposition:"I just want to ask you if I could use your computer?" Pluralize the person responsible:"We forgot to tell you that you needed to by your plane ticket by yesterday." Source: Brown and Levinson'sPoliteness strategies • Attend to the hearer:"You must be hungry, it's a long time since breakfast. How about some lunch?" • Avoid disagreement:A: " What is she, small?"B: "Yes, yes, she's small, smallish, um, not really small but certainly not very big." • Assume agreement:"So when are you coming to see us?" • Hedge opinion:"You really should sort of try harder."

  5. Greetings: • Politenes in greetings • Twofriendsmeeting: • Hi! • What’sup? • ’Supdude! • Meetingsomeoneyoudon’tknow: • Hello • Goodmorning/afternoon/evening

  6. Howdoesitaffectpeople? • In ouropinionoliteness can basically give a certain image of someone to someone else, because manners can tell a lot about a person. For example if you've seen someone do something rude once, you might picture them to be rude all the time. And then again, if someone is nice once you might straight away assume they're a very nice and fair person.

  7. Video: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VTRHr8xcT8

  8. Picture Sources • http://www.randomblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Taking-politeness-to-a-whole-other-level..jpg • http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/8049/20060518.gif • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LwSRuFgm1aA/TuNf6YaN9MI/AAAAAAAAAYo/u4LTQv80kGc/s1600/politeness9.jpg • http://www.jazzyintellectual.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/shakinghands.jpg • http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.fi/2008/10/nyc-most-polite-city-in-world.html • http://www.english-at-home.com/speaking/english-greetings/ • http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/conversation.gif • http://www.funelf.net/photos/Don%60t-forget-to-smile.jpg • http://memecrunch.com/meme/R0M/polite-room-mate-dog/image.png

  9. Sourcescited: • Brown, and Levinson. "Politeness Strategy Examples." Politeness Strategy Examples. N.p., 25 Feb. 1997. Web. 13 Nov. 2012. <http://logos.uoregon.edu/explore/socioling/strat.html>. Patenttranslator's Blog." Patenttranslators Blog. N.p., 3 Dec. 2011. Web. 12 Nov. 2012. <http://patenttranslator.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/the-different-levels-of-politeness-in-different-cultures-and-languages/>. • "Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!" Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!N.p., 15 Oct. 2008. Web. 12 Nov. 2012. <http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.fi/2008/10/nyc-most-polite-city-in-world.html>. • "Politeness." Explore Linguistics!N.p., 25 Feb. 1997. Web. 12 Nov. 2012. • "English Greetings." English Greetings. N.p., 2012. Web. 12 Nov. 2012. <http://www.english-at-home.com/speaking/english-greetings/>.

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