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 ...
Social media interfaces as a representation of cultural meanings
A problem of the growing popularity of cross-cultural social media studies is the lack of discrimination between the effects of user characteristics and those of the architecture of a virtual platform interface. This makes the detected cultural differences unreliable. A way to solve this problem is a comparative study of social media interfaces only, seeking to identify the culturally constituted meanings embedded in the design of virtual platforms. These meanings are employed in the users’ virtual...
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
Kolyadov D. M.
203-218
10.5922/2225-5346-2024-3-12
