On Im/politeness Behind the Iron Curtain

Ogiermann, Eva; Suszczyńska, Małgorzata

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“…Kohteliaisuuden muutoksen tarkastelu on tärkeää, sillä normit muuttuvat ajan myötä. Tarkasteluni laajentaa siten aikaisempia tutkimuksia, jotka ovat analysoineet kielenpuhujien käsityksiä kohteliaisuuden muutoksesta erityisesti kreikassa (Sifianou & Tzanne 2010;Bella & Ogiermann 2019) sekä puolassa ja unkarissa (Ogiermann & Suszczyńska 2011).…”

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“…Tarkoittaako tämä, että kohteliaisuuskäsitykset olisivat menossa samaan suuntaan Euroopassa? Oman tutkimukseni mukaan suomalainen ja ranskalainen kohteliaisuus olisivat lähenemässä toisiaan, kun taas Puola ja Kreikka saattavat olla siirtymässä positiivisestä kohteliaisuudesta negatiivisen kohteliaisuuden suuntaan (Ogiermann & Suszczyńska 2011;Bella & Ogiermann 2019). On mahdollista, että eurooppalainen kohteliaisuus olisi suuntautumassa kohti keskitietä, joka sijaitsee Brownin ja Levinsonin käsittein jossakin positiivisen ja negatiivisen kohteliaisuuden -tai toisin sanoen reviirin kunnioituksen ja reagoinnin -välimaastossa, mutta lisätutkimuksia tarvitaan.…”

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Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Isosävi

2023

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How to study politeness? Perceptions of Finnish and French politeness Politeness is a key means by which we maintain interpersonal relationships. This book is the first comprehensive study of politeness in Finnish. Based on linguistic and pragmatic research, the book spans three parts. The first part is theoretical and historical, summarising three waves of politeness research, describing politeness as a cultural and historical phenomenon. The second part is empirical, providing an example of the study of im/politeness from outsiders’ perspectives—that, is French people living in Finland and Finns living or having lived in France. The focus group discussions ranged from definitions of politeness and differences of behaviour, to learning and teaching as well as to changes to politeness norms within society. The third part summarises the conclusions and offers an epilogue. This reader-friendly book includes exercises and recommended readings, and is welcomed by researchers and students working on politeness and, more broadly, relational work.

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Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Isosävi

2023

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“…ON UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLITENESS IN GREEK, AGAIN! 257 2.3 HELPFULNESS Unlike respect and kindness, helpfulness has rarely been mentioned explicitly as an aspect of politeness until recently (see, e.g., Fukushima & Sifianou, 2017;Ogiermann & Suszczyńska, 2011;Ogiermann & Saloustrou, 2020;Sifianou, 2017) even though helpfulness bears a close relationship to both kindness (cf. Peterson & Seligman, 2004, p. 294; see also Fukushima, 2020) and unconditional respect.…”

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On Understandings of Politeness in Greek, Again!

Sifianou¹

2023

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Recent discursive approaches to im/politeness have emphasised the significance of exploring non-academic understandings of im/politeness. Pursuing this line of research, the data for this paper come from a questionnaire distributed to 100 undergraduate female university students. The informants were asked to provide some attributes of a polite person and offer examples of a person or behaviour that impressed them as being polite. The aim was to elicit the respondents’ perceptions of what constitutes politeness. The results show that the prevalent attributes of a polite person for these informants are helpfulness and unconditional respect, along with kindness. These constitute a web of closely related concepts based on goodness and genuine concern for the other, with respectfulness and kindness probably motivating helpfulness. This finding suggests that non-academic understandings of politeness are broader and not confined to language use, which has been the locus of most im/politeness research.

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“…Reported differences exist in forms of address (Isosävi 2010;Isosävi and Lappalainen 2015) and in (im)politeness perceptions (Buchart 2010: 100). Most previous (im)politeness studies concentrated on cultural insiders' (emic) evaluations (Ogiermann and Suszczyńska 2011;Fukushima and Haugh 2014). This study, however, targets the less-studied cultural outsiders' (etic) perceptions, uncovering expectations and norms reflecting the concept of (im)politeness in their culture of origin.…”

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Cultural outsiders’ evaluations of (im)politeness in Finland and in France

Isosävi

2020

Journal of Politeness Research

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AbstractIntercultural interaction may be complicated by differing verbal and nonverbal displays of (im)politeness. Yet cultural outsiders’ evaluations of (im)politeness have not been widely examined. To fill this gap, this study investigated perceptions of Finnish politeness among French people living in Finland and perceptions of French politeness among Finns currently or previously living in France. Focus groups were used in order to study culturally shared (im)politeness norms and their variations. Based on a dialogical discourse analysis of five focus group discussions, it is argued that personal space emerges as a salient factor for politeness in Finland, while verbal and nonverbal rapport is more important in France. These overarching themes - personal space and rapport - led to discussions about greetings, silence and holding doors open. Greeting and opening doors appeared more categorical in France, while silence was better tolerated in Finland. In addition to dominant norms, regional and individual variations were reported. Overall, (im)politeness norms appeared to be vaguer in Finland than in France. Building upon this study, future research should examine if changes emerge in Finnish (im)politeness norms related to rapport or if space remains more valued.

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On Im/politeness Behind the Iron Curtain

Cited by 19 publications

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Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

Miten tutkia kohteliaisuutta? Käsityksiä suomalaisesta ja ranskalaisesta kohteliaisuudesta

On Understandings of Politeness in Greek, Again!

Cultural outsiders’ evaluations of (im)politeness in Finland and in France

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