Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... characteristics, as well as the context of the exchange, we have identified some culture-specific features. The findings suggest that English emails are more focused on mitigating refusal and its negative effect on the addressee’s feelings, thereby saving face, compared with the Russian ones. This can be observed in the structure of refusal, its supporting moves and politeness strategies. The results confirm that politeness is not only a social, but also a psychological phenomenon based on empathy ...
First-name address, interpersonal interaction and the public face: the case of the Russian language
... where politeness issues do not seem relevant. In these cases, it seems appropriate to describe the vocative function as a background operation to maintain social relations.
terms of address, given name, service encounters, politeness, public face, face-threatening act
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10.5922/2225-5346-2024-3-12
Interfaces of Contemporary Poetry: Turn-taking and Multiple Addressing
... in poetry manifests itself through the violation of grammatical norms, the graphic highlighting of pragmatic markers, and the representation of computer interface elements such as messengers, social networks, etc. At the same time, the media interface creates a multiplicity of addressing and influences the strategies of indirect subjectivation that manifest themselves as a result of several shifts (deictic, functional, etc.), allowing us to deal with the updating of the communication parameters ...
