Indirectness and politeness in Turkish–German bilingual and Turkish monolingual requests

Martı, Leyla

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2005.05.009

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“…In fact, a number of studies conducted in other cultures confirm these findings regarding the use of direct strategies and the explanation given for this. For instance, Marti (2006) conducted a comparative study among a sample of speakers of Turkish monolingual speakers and TurkishGerman bilinguals, and found that German speakers produced higher level of indirectness than speakers of Turkish. This confirmed what Blum-Kulka (1987) had suggested, namely that there is no strict relation between indirectness and politeness, but it is a matter of cultural context, meaning that what it is seen as a polite act in one culture, it is not necessarily seen in the same way in another culture (see Terkourafi, 2011).…”

Section: Directnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aggressiveness and deference in Arabic broadcast interviews

Alfahad

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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Section: Directnessmentioning

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Aggressiveness and deference in Arabic broadcast interviews

Alfahad

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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“…Silva (2000) found out that Americans living in Brazil are much closer to Portuguese monolinguals in their metapragmatic judgements than Brazilians living in the US for 3 years or more who, in turn, have become more like the Americans in their L1 Portuguese. Martı (2006), in her study of requests made by Turkish-German returnees, found that the bilinguals tend to be more indirect in their L1 than monolingual speakers of Turkish.…”

Section:  Crosslinguistic Influences In Pragmaticsmentioning

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Impossible requests: L2 users' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic choices in L1 acts of refusal

Ewert

Bromberek-Dyzman

2008

EUROSLA

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The study compares pragmalinguistic knowledge of the L1 in non-routine situations in L2 users and L2 learners, aiming to see to what extent pragmalinguistic behaviours in the L1 are influenced by exposure to the L2. The first part of the paper discusses the nature of bilingual language knowledge and transfer in multicompetence. In the experiment, refusals to untypical requests were elicited by means of a discourse completion test (DCT). The L2 users in this study appear to be "more native than the native speaker" (Cook, Iarossi, Stellakis, & Tokumaru 2003) in their choice of semantic formulas, as compared to monolingual speakers of their L1. Since pragmatic transfer is ruled out by the baseline data from native speakers of English, an alternative explanation is proposed, based on the L2 users' increased sensitivity to interactional demands (Genesee, Tucker & Lambert 1975), more varied experience at social interaction and changed perception of their L1.

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“…They don't agree with Brown and Levinson theory that says indirectness indicates politeness and made into conclusion that Mexican speakers used direct sentences in their conversations, that don't indicate impoliteness in discourse, rather suggesting a kind of an intimacy relation among them. Other research is in the field of politeness and indirectness conducted by Marti (2006) as "politeness and directness in the requests of the German -Turkish bilinguals and mono and Turkish bilinguals". He wants to know why the most Turkish people consider those who have return from Germany to their home town after years such as Marti as direct and even disrespectful.…”

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The Role of Politeness in the Employee-client Speech Interactions

Hedayat

Kazemi

2018

TPLS

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Abstract-The current investigation intends to study the pragmatic role of politeness in the interactions between employers with some clients in governmental offices. In linguistic interactions, the role of metalinguistic factors like linguistic ones are so noticeable and also can be rendered. In this study, we collected data by field method and by means of a questionnaire. Also the method of research was analytical one. The statistical society was one hundred person of the governmental clients. The results suggest that meanwhile the conversation, using face to face interactions and making utterance was satisfactory, but speech interruption was seen for35 items, 12 items for keep client waiting, 21 items for ambiguous talking and paying enough attention to client's discourse was merely 38 items. Today the result of the study shows that the clients expect that their face to be preserved and the staff offices must implement the pragmatics strategies of politeness and face saving in format of positive and negative face in order to have a more effect on the clients. Maybe most of us didn't think so far to the point that we must speak due to the necessities, and these necessities should be found in every one's context of situation.

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Indirectness and politeness in Turkish–German bilingual and Turkish monolingual requests

Cited by 69 publications

References 24 publications

Aggressiveness and deference in Arabic broadcast interviews

Aggressiveness and deference in Arabic broadcast interviews

Impossible requests: L2 users' sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic choices in L1 acts of refusal

The Role of Politeness in the Employee-client Speech Interactions

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