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Politeness in language

Politeness in language. By Aleksi and Samppa. General info on politeness in language. If you don’t mind. Make some small jokes. Keep your distance from the person. Small compliments. Facial expressions. Tone of speaking. (Not too aggressive). When asking for something being humble.

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Politeness in language

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  1. Politeness in language By Aleksi and Samppa

  2. General info on politeness in language.If you don’t mind. • Make some small jokes. • Keep your distance from the person. • Small compliments. • Facial expressions. • Tone of speaking. (Not too aggressive). • When asking for something being humble. • Not swearing. • There is positive, negative, off record and bald on record politeness. (Brown/Levinson). • Positive politeness is more nice way of talking. • Negative politeness is not respecting or not really noticing other people (common in Finland) • Off record politeness is a little bit like negative but shows little hints of positive politeness • Bald on record politeness is being very strict with what you are saying.

  3. Politeness • Peedosaysthatpoliteness is ’’definedby the concern for the feelings of others’’. • Politemannerscanbeused to comeacrossnicely, buttheycanalsobeused to getsomethingyouwant . (Levison- Brown, 1987)

  4. The face • According to Brown and Levinson, politeness is used in coversation to maintain/save the hearers ’’face’’. Theysaythat the face is the selfrespect in privateorpublicsituations. • According to Peedo, FaceThreateningActsarethings ’’thatviolate on the hearers’ need to maintainhis/herself-esteem, and berespected. ’’

  5. Types of politeness • Politenesscanbedivided to 4 differentcategories: positivepoliteness, negativepoliteness, bald on recordpoliteness and offrecordpoliteness • Positivepoliteness is whenyounotice the otherpersonsneedsorwantsorsay for instance’’What a brillianthouse!’’. • Negative politeness is moredistancing. Youcanaskthingsindirectlye.g ’’Wouldyouknowwhere Aleksi lives?’’. Youcanalsousepluralpronounse.g ’’Wearehappy to informyou…’’. • Offrecordpoliteness is using a statement to beindirect, whiletrying to get the other person to dosomething for you. Saying ’’It sure is gettingcoldhere’’ to getyourfriend to close the window is offrecordpoliteness. • Bald on recordpoliteness is simple. It is baldand straightforwarde.g ’’Pass me the drink’’, and ’’Come in’’ areboth in the region of bald on recordpoliteness. • (Levison- Brown, 1987)

  6. Works Cited • Brown, P., Levison, S., (1987) Politeness, Cambridge University Press • Peedo, M., (2002) Politeness, Oulu University

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