Focusing on the social phenomenon of politeness in daily communication,this study tackles the online language occurring in a Wechat group from the perspective of politeness strategies.The selected chat transcripts are...
English is widely adopted by international companies as working language. The ability to effectively use English tocommunicate is regarded as an advantage in business world. Politeness strategy is extensively employed...
Politeness is a symbol of human civilization that can be found in all languages and cultures. It has a crucial role in establishing and keeping good relationships and maintaining social harmony. Through the comparativ...
The present paper focuses on the critical properties of sound and artificial invitations in Farsi according to a collected number of impromptu invitations in Farsi. The outcomes were compared and analyzed with the str...
The present study is a contribution to research in variational pragmatics and it examines compliment responses in two non-hexagonal varieties of French, namely Cameroon French and Canadian (Qu6bec) French. On the ba...
This paper explores how culture can be treated as an explanatory variable in study of politeness. The paper points out short-comings of the now-available theories and methods concerning politeness and conceive Edward ...
This paper is an examination of politeness maxims functioning in contemporary Chinese, mainly following GU's previous study of politeness phenomena in modern Chinese. From the review of the already identified politen...
The Pragmatic Distance Hypothesis by Jianhua Wang, as a redress endeavor, has some new and insightful ideas such as initial pragmatic distance, ongoing pragmatic distance and negotiation about this distance. But his c...