On not calling people by their names: Pragmatic undertones of sociocultural relationships in a postcolony

Anchimbe, Eric A.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.013

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“…Based on our findings, in British family, the politeness strategies of addressing in top-down context between parents and children are formed by using name, nickname or endearing words as in the situations below, when the father addresses his daughter for passing him the salt at dinner table (1-2), when the mother addresses her daughter for babysitting her sibling (3)(4), when the father addresses his son after repairing his bike (5), and when the father addresses his son for cleaning the garage (6). In these situations, zero addressing has hardly ever appeared (7)(8):…”

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Politeness Strategies in British and Persian Family Discourse: Forms of Addressing

Neda¹

2021

Philology. Theory & Practice

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Цель исследования -выявить сходства и различия норм вежливости и стратегий вежливости категории обращения в британской и персидской семье и проиллюстрировать их культурные различия. Научная новизна исследования заключается в анализе речевого акта обращения в британской и персидской семейной обстановке с опорой на теорию вежливости/невежливости, теорию речевого акта, межкультурный прагматический и дискурсивный анализ, исследование конструирования идентичности и влияния вежливости на коммуникативные стили. В результате доказано, что в британской культуре стратегии вежливости являются эгалитарными в асимметричных контекстах сверху вниз (родители -дети) и снизу вверх (дети -родители). Между тем в персидской культуре из-за расширенного индекса дистанции власти существуют заметные различия в этих контекстах.

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Politeness Strategies in British and Persian Family Discourse: Forms of Addressing

Neda¹

2021

Philology. Theory & Practice

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“…The Teral Gan group, which she organized with Aicha and her friends, was in charge of hospitality during the event. Mami Laye shared with me the story of Seydina Limamou Laye's mother, Soxna Coumba Ndoye, 4 and her practices of teraanga as the symbolic principle of the Layene community. Coumba Ndoye is revered by all Layene, especially women, as a virtuous and generous woman due to her welcoming nature, even to strangers.…”

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Sharedness as Belonging

2021

Religion and Society

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This article draws on in-depth ethnographic research with the Layene (People of God), a little-studied Sufi Muslim community based in Dakar, the present-day Senegalese capital. My analysis of everyday and ritual performances serves as a way to understand what it means to be Layene, a community guided by particular (re)interpretations of equality, community ethics, and religious practice and discourse. I focus primarily on how the Layene reinterpret the Wolof concept of teraanga (hospitality/prestation) as constituting a kind of ‘radical sharedness’, which is viewed as the ethical foundation of the Layene faith. My study uses ethnographic research with Layene community members, discourse analysis of written and spoken Layene sermons and sikr (invocations of God), and content from Layene community websites to examine how specific ritual performances bring about religious communion as well as social change.

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“…Forms of address are important linguistic items that encode the social status of interactants and the relationship that exists between the addresser and the addressee. They appear as pronouns, nouns and verbs (Jucker/Taavitsainen 2003;Anchimbe 2011a;Mühleisen 2011). Pronominal address forms may include pronouns that indicate familiarity or distance such as the tu/vous distinction in French while nominal address terms include names, kinship terms, titles and occupational terms.…”

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“…For example, Jaworski and Galasinski (2000) suggest that interlocutors in Polish political television debates use address forms to define their interpersonal space, and regulate, establish and legitimise their political ideologies. In the study of address terms in postcolonial communities, scholars such as Afful (2007), Anchimbe (2011a) and Mühleisen (2011) have focused on forms of address in Ghanaian, Cameroonian and Caribbean societies respectively. Studies on forms of address in Nigerian societies have paid attention to address terms in the Yoruba society (Oyetade 1995), Yoruba names given to twins (Odebode 2010) and Yoruba names given to Abiku children (Odebode 2011).…”

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Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

Unuabonah¹

2018

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This paper examines the forms and functions of address terms employed among staff members and the language ideologies that inform the use of these address forms in a southwestern Nigerian university. The study is guided by Anchimbe’s (2011a) categorisation of address forms, and theories on language ideologies. The data are collected through participant-observation, oral and written interviews, and these are analysed qualitatively. The analysis reveals that forms of address used in the university include academic titles, official titles, kinship terms, social titles, nicknames, first names, surnames, and different combinations of these address forms. The address terms are derived from English, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin and other indigenous Nigerian languages. The address forms are informed by postmodernist and functionalist language ideologies which are influenced by cultural ideologies where interactants’ cultures play significant roles in the choice of address terms.

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On not calling people by their names: Pragmatic undertones of sociocultural relationships in a postcolony

Cited by 52 publications

References 17 publications

Politeness Strategies in British and Persian Family Discourse: Forms of Addressing

Politeness Strategies in British and Persian Family Discourse: Forms of Addressing

Sharedness as Belonging

Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

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