The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...

Adopting a discursive approach to politeness (see, for example, Mills 2011), this paper explores spontaneous naturally occurring compliment responses (CRs) in Chinese from a cross-generational perspective. It aims to extend our understanding of the dynamic nature of face and/or politeness in contemporary Chinese. 16 multiparty conversations among two generations of the Chinese in China’s mainla...

Homophily, the phenomenon of similar people getting connected to and being socially familiar with each other, is well-known on online social networks. Detection of user stance towards given topics, on online social networks, specifically Twitter, has emerged as a mainstream research topic. The current work provides insights into the impact of topic-specific stance similarity and social familiar...

In the last decades, studies on politeness have discussed central concepts stemming from Brown and Levinson’s work ([1978] 1987), such as face , threats mitigations strategies of . One problems that study presents for analysis a situated corpus speech is use mentioned notions calls socio-cultural perspective. other words, it necessary to include extralinguistic factors in politeness, phenomena ...

one tactful strategy in political rhetoric is hedging which is associated with vagueness and innuendos. despite the studies that address hedging in academic discourse and conversation analysis, studies that investigate hedges in relation to political power, face, and politeness are tremendously few. to this aim, four political interviews were selected from cnn and bbc websites on the basis of t...

the present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by efl learners while chatting on the internet. subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female iranian natives whose internet relay chat (irc) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between december 2007 and september 2008. data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

The use of politeness strategies can help interlocutors promote and/or maintain social harmony in telephone interactions. Using the Rapport Management Model proposed by Spencer-Oatey (2008), this study aimed primarily to reinvestigate the closing structures of telephone conversation (hereafter abbreviated as TC) in Persian and to discover the common politeness strategies used by native Persian ...