the present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. the researcher took politeness theory of brown and levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. to observe politeness of urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. a discourse completion task (dct) was used as an instrument to...

This paper describes a model of politeness between intentional agents developed from sociolinguistic observations of human-human interactions (Brown and Levinson, 1987) and suggests a method for applying it to human-machine interactions. Applications in the context of a medication reminder system are presented including data which suggest that the Brown and Levinson model provides good predicti...

A number of researchers have recently argued that politeness is not always inferred in the form of an implicature as claimed by Brown and Levinson (1987), but rather can be anticipated by addressees when it involves expected behaviour. The distinction between anticipated and inferred politeness is thus an important area for further development of politeness theory. In this paper, the way in whi...

We present first results of our project on the generation of contextually adequate greeting exchanges in video role playing games. To make greeting exchanges computable, an analysis of the factors influencing greeting behavior as well as the factors influencing greeting exchanges is given. Based on the politeness model proposed by Brown & Levinson (1987) we develop a simple algorithm for the ge...

The present research is aimed at investigating how the politeness of the speakers of Urdu is influenced by their relative social status in society. The researcher took politeness theory of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) as a model. To observe politeness of Urdu speakers, speech act of apology with different strategies was selected. A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) was used as an instrument to...

The purpose of this study was to determine the politeness strategies used by teachers when teaching English in coeducational classrooms and impact these on students. We focused analyzing teachers' verbal perceptions off-record explained implications as found two lesson recordings. Researchers employed targeted selection informative qualitative studies obtain data. Data were collected through in...

The ‘third space’ (Bhabha, 1994) is a way of re-imagining the traditional teacher-student hierarchical relationship. This practitioner research study uses computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 1996) to investigate the potential of email to facilitate such ‘third space’ communication. It is based on 279 emails exchanged between 10 international ESL students and their lecturer at an Aust...

This paper entitled “Positive Politeness Strategy in the Conversation of Me Before You Movie”. The aims was to identify positive politeness strategy and explain factor influencing characters used strategies based on theory Brown Levinson (1987). data taken from utterance between movie. collected through documentation method by taking-note technique, this article qualitative analyze data, presen...