An Investigation of the Use of politeness strategies in refusal among Characters with different power relations in English and Farsi Novels

Farrokhi, Farahman; Arghami, Mina

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“…Since different languages call for different ways of approaching, the teaching situation must be a in a way providing opportunities for the learner to compare his L1 with the second or foreign language he is learning. (Farrokhi & Arghami, 2017). That is why understanding the discourse of manners and how thorough politeness affects all aspects of daily social interaction among students themselves can lead to a deeper understanding and awareness of politeness in the target language.…”

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Cultural Values of Politeness in Efl Classroom: A Study of Etnography of Communication

Fitriyah

Emzir

Ridwan

2019

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One of the purposes of learning English as a foreign language (EFL) is to be able to communicate. The Students must have communicative competence that does not only consist of linguistic competencies, but also socio-cultural ones. This paper aims to analyse the cultural themes of politeness strategies in EFL Classroom. The research in this paper focused on directive and expressive speech acts in EFL classroom. The participants of this study are three lecturers and the students of three English classes. The data are gathered by video audio by recording the lecturers’ utterances and students’ compliances to the lecturer, in order to find the politeness strategies and the cultural values in EFL classroom. The results show that; 1) There are seven kinds of cultural values of politeness strategies in EFL classroom, such as glorifying God, agreement, apologising, questioning, delivering praise, delivering thank you, and praying for others, 2) The lecturers and students dominantly use agreement and questioning in EFL Classroom. Thereby, this issue is relevant to EFL classes focusing on the improvement of both lecturers and students’ language and cultural skill. The analytical tool refers to the theories of Brown and Levinson’s positive and negative politeness, and the ethnography of communication method. The findings of this study will probably give insights into the pragmatic and conversational rules of EFL. The last part of this paper aims at summarizing that the implications that this paper are relevant to the strategies of teaching English as a Foreign Language.

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Cultural Values of Politeness in Efl Classroom: A Study of Etnography of Communication

Fitriyah

Emzir

Ridwan

2019

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Grand strategy of politeness in new social networks: revisiting Leech’s politeness theory among Iranian EFL learners using Telegram

Ahmadi

Weisi

2023

Journal of Politeness Research

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Human beings utilize varied linguistic politeness to facilitate interaction and minimize the potential for conflict. With the advancement of the Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and the introduction of new social networks, studying how politeness operates within human communication opened up new avenues for research, particularly within diverse cultures. For this reason, the current study sought to report on the “whats” and “hows” of politeness strategies identified in Telegram messages delivered by EFL Learners in Iran. Data were analyzed based on Leech’s (Leech, Geoffrey. 2007. Politeness: Is there an East-West divide? Journal of Politeness Research 3(2). 167–206) Grand Strategy of Politeness, considering the purpose of communication, politeness strategies, and context. The corpus for this study encompassed 1,413 text messages sent via Telegram by 9 EFL learners during one year. Findings indicated a number of different politeness strategies in Iranian culture, specifically the modesty constraint – the speaker maximizes dispraise of himself – which can be construed as one of the unique features and influences of Islamic teachings. Moreover, the Leech’s model might appropriately describe politeness principles in Asian contexts, including Iran, and how cultural dynamics manifest themselves in interpreting the concept of politeness.

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Analyzing the Speech Act of Disagreement Produced by Iraqi Efl Learners: A Gender Study

Sharqawi

Anthony

2019

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Purpose of study: This is a pragmatic study dealing with the speech act of disagreement at the production level. The aim of the study is to investigate whether gender (the independent variable) affects the production of disagreement strategies (dependent variables) used by Iraqi EFL learners. The study is meant to help educators through diagnosing the learners’ pragmatic abilities which were reported by Iraqi scholars as weak and underdeveloped. The study also intends to enrich the speech act literature which lacks gender consideration in the Iraqi context. Methodology: The study is limited to the analysis of the pragmatic strategies of disagreement within the theory of speech act in relation to gender. The study adopts a descriptive quantitative approach usinga written discourse completion task (WDCT) as a tool for collecting data. The tool consists of 10 open-ended situations to elicit data from80fourth-yearIraqi English as a foreign language (EFL) learners who equally were split into 40 males and 40 females. The study utilized MS Excel 2016 for statistical analysis of directness strategies with their dependent explicitness strategies. Results: It is revealedthat both males and females employ the similar amount of explicit disagreement strategies but as far as the indirect strategies are concerned,females significantly use more indirect disagreement strategies than their male counterparts. Novelty/Originality: The current studyis gender-based deals with the speech act of disagreement at the directness and explicitness levels at the Iraqi EFL learners context. Itreveals the leaners’ current state of affair in terms of their pragmatic ability inthe production of disagreements. It acts as a call for educators and syllabus designers to consider the teachability of the indirectaspect inherent in the act under study.

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An Investigation of the Use of politeness strategies in refusal among Characters with different power relations in English and Farsi Novels

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Cultural Values of Politeness in Efl Classroom: A Study of Etnography of Communication

Cultural Values of Politeness in Efl Classroom: A Study of Etnography of Communication

Grand strategy of politeness in new social networks: revisiting Leech’s politeness theory among Iranian EFL learners using Telegram

Analyzing the Speech Act of Disagreement Produced by Iraqi Efl Learners: A Gender Study

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