Politeness might lessen imposition in argumentative conversations which potentially result conflict. However, different conventions on politeness among cultures may cause problems for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners who often transfer their native communication preferences to target language usage. This article explores the (im)politeness employed by multilingual casual agreeing-di...

It has been found that Korean speakers lower their average voice pitch when speaking politely [16, 17], contradicting the idea that high pitch is polite across all cultures, as proposed by Ohala’s Frequency Code hypothesis [e.g., 12]. This study looks at pitch as a perceptual cue to politeness in Korean. Ten Korean listeners heard short utterances from eight different speakers and judged whethe...

This study examined how instigators of abuse used emotionally abusive messages to manipulate politeness attack their partners' face. Additionally, we studied the people experiencing responded such messages. Using thematic co-occurrence analysis (TCA), analyzed 20 semi-structured interviews with those who have experienced abuse. Participants reported that all three Austin's (1990) face act strat...

Analysis of sociointerpersonal communication patterns among discourse participants is essential to understand the manifestation of and the interpersonalcommunication features realized in online social interaction. The linguistic politeness theory provides an effective framework for such an analysis of sociointerpersonal communication features employed by online language users tomaintain and enh...

A significant and prevalent aspect of human behavior (as opposed to attitudes and beliefs) which is affected by cultural differences is communication style. We have been developing computational models of an important culturallyvarying aspect of communication: ”politeness” and “etiquette” in social interactions and its role in establishing and managing power and familiarity relationships, urgen...

This study investigated politeness strategies of disagreement expressed by undergraduate Iraqi EFL students in Online Asynchronous Discussions OADs. The data were collected from 100 individuals randomly chosen classes at Mosul university. investigation focused on the impact that gender may have could be used to lessen possibility conflict expressing face-threatening act FTAs. For collection, pa...