COOPERATIVE AND POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN UTTERANCES

Detecting Politeness and efficiency in a cooperative social interaction

We developed a cooperative time-sensitive task to study vocal expression of politeness and efficiency. Sixteen dyads completed 20 trials of the ‘Maze Task’, where one participant (the ‘navigator’) gave oral instructions (mainly ‘up’, ‘down’, left’, ‘right’) for the other (the ‘pilot’) to follow. For half of the trials, navigators were instructed to be polite, and for the other half to be effici...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Politeness Strategies and Politeness Markers in Email Request Sent by Iranian EFL Learners to Professors

This study attempts to investigate politeness strategies and politeness markers in email-request sent byIranian male and female EFL learners to professors. The comparison between strategies used by malesand females in email-request were also analyzed. 52 actual emails of M.A students of TEFL studying atAzad University consisted the data in this research. To analyze the corpus, politeness strate...

CoOperative Objects: Principles, Use and Implementation

It is no longer relevant to praise the qualities of the Object-Oriented Approach and the Petri Net Theory. Each of them has proved to be a powerful framework in its field of application. However it is a challenge to associate them into a conceptual framework which combines the expressive power of both approaches while maintaining their respective merits. Moreover, it must be shown that such a f...

Culture, Politeness and Directive