Applicability of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory to a Non-Western Culture

Kiyama, Sachiko; Tamaoka, Katsuo; Takiura, Masato

doi:10.1177/2158244012470116

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“…Despite the implementation of Brown and Levinson's [2] model in many non-Western communities, there has been some criticism of this theory with some researchers questioning its viability in non-Western cultures, or, at the very least, accusing the model of being Western-biased, see [15]. Hence, Hill et al [16] hypothesized an alternative model to Brown and Levinson's in which they distinguished between two types of politeness: discernment, which is the tendency for speakers to conform to the socially agreed-upon norms in various situations, and volition, an aspect of politeness that allows the speaker to choose from various politeness acts.…”

Section: Politeness In Real-time Social Interactionmentioning

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Greetings as a Politeness Strategy in EFL Distance Learning Students' Official Emails

Almoaily¹

2018

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The current study attempts to discover English as a Foreign Language (EFL) distance learning male students' awareness of email greetings as a politeness strategy in English computer-mediated communication (CMC). To this end, 200 email messages sent from distance learning students at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, to their graduation project supervisor were analyzed. The degree of formality of these messages was very high for two main reasons. First, all of the email messages comprised instances of first-time contact with the supervisor. Second, the social distance between the students and their supervisor was high. Hence, the students were expected to use formal email greetings. The emails sent by the analyzed sample were put into three categories: begun with formal greetings, started by informal greetings, and null-greeting emails. Contrary to expectations, only 16.5% used formal English email greetings. The remaining students chose religious greetings (20.5%), less formal greetings (7%), or null greetings (56%). The large number of null greeting emails suggests that the students' awareness of greetings as a politeness strategy was low. Hence, the study concluded with implications to ensure increasing EFL students' awareness of politeness strategies in CMC.

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Section: Politeness In Real-time Social Interactionmentioning

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Greetings as a Politeness Strategy in EFL Distance Learning Students' Official Emails

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2018

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“…If that is the case, Japanese people who are certain about their innocence may take great offense at unreasonable accusations and unleash a strongly negative response. Even though the Japanese are said to be eager to seek social harmony, not all Japanese people have the same needs, interests, or behaviors (Kiyama, Tamaoka, & Takiura, 2012). To the extent to which Japanese people are incompatible with each other, conflict over the question of responsibility will be inevitable in their interactions (Krauss, Rohlen, & Steinhoff, 1984).…”

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“…The feature of this formulation deserves a generative model that accounts for face work (Holtgraves, 2002(Holtgraves, , 2009Kiyama, et al, 2012) and at the same time receives criticisms from linguistic pragmatists (e.g., Kasper, 1990), and sociologists (e.g., Psathas, 1995). For the purpose of analyses of the interactional effects among multiple factors influencing face work behaviors, the effect of cultural factor needs to be investigated independently from that of situational factor.…”

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From Universal Perceptions to Diverging Behaviors: An Exploratory Comparison ofResponses to Unreasonable Accusations among People from the United States, Japan, and South Korea

Kiyama¹,

Takatori²,

Lim³

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The current study conducted a survey of how people from the United States, Japan, and South Korea select responses to unreasonable accusations as an example of face work in conflict situations in terms of 1) culture 2) situations of accusation differing on the locus of responsibility, 3) the balance of power in relationships, and 4) familiarity between the accuser and the accused. Results of decision tree analyses demonstrated that the intrinsic content of the situation was the crucial determinant of responses to unreasonable accusations while interpersonal relationships had the next-strongest influence on the responses. The findings suggest that perception of conflict situation appears to be universal, whereas how to assess interpersonal relationships and the value placed on language expressions suitable for the given interlocutors may differ depending on culture.

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“…Literature review shows that intercultural communication (IC) along with politeness strategies have become among favourite research interests among researchers. Such studies by Moon, Uskul and Weick (2019), Lee, Park, Imai & Dolan (2012), Kiyama, Tamaoka, and Takiura (2012) are those investigating the interrelation between culture and language, politeness strategies, in particular. IC vitality in daily lives comes into reality as the world today is characterized by an ever growing number of contacts involving people coming from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.…”

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National Cultures and Politeness Strategies in Intercultural Communication Among Japanese and American Characters in “The Last Samurai” Movie: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Nurilaila

Ricahyono

Setyadi

et al. 2020

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<p>The study which is descriptive qualitative in nature, aims to investigate preference of politeness strategies by American and Japanese characters in “The Last Samurai movie and explain it in terms the national culture. Results show that the order of preference by Americans is: 1) BoP (11/50%), 2) PoP (7/31.8%), 3) NeP (3/13.6%), and 4) OfR (1/4.5%). That by the Japanese is: 1) OfR (18/60%), 2) BoR (6/20%), 3). NeP (6/20%), 4) PoP (0). American national culture and that of Japan which are different affect their preference of politeness strategies shown in “The Last Samurai” movie. In conclusion, language and culture affect each other. People coming from different language and culture communicate differently.</p>

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Applicability of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory to a Non-Western Culture

Cited by 24 publications

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Greetings as a Politeness Strategy in EFL Distance Learning Students' Official Emails

Greetings as a Politeness Strategy in EFL Distance Learning Students' Official Emails

From Universal Perceptions to Diverging Behaviors: An Exploratory Comparison ofResponses to Unreasonable Accusations among People from the United States, Japan, and South Korea

National Cultures and Politeness Strategies in Intercultural Communication Among Japanese and American Characters in “The Last Samurai” Movie: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

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