Politeness in ancient Rome: Can it help us evaluate modern politeness theories?

Dickey, Eleanor

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“…Journal of Language and Education,8(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.17323/jle.2022.11859 Recived: Dec 12, 2020Accepted: Mar 01, 2022Published: Mar 31, 2022 PAVEL DURYAGIN, MARIA FOKINA However, the scope of studies in pragmatics has widened significantly over recent decades, as typologically different languages are increasingly being investigated; see, for example, a detailed review of pragmatic studies in Eastern languages in (Chen, 2010) and successful application of Brown and Levinson's theory in several recent case studies (Chen et al, 2013;Dickey, 2016;Kiyama et al, 2012). We aim to continue this trend by examining evidence from Russian, a language that is relatively understudied within the mainstream framework of cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics.…”

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Perception of Prosodic and Aspectual Cues to Politeness in Teacher Directives in L1 and L2 Russian

Duryagin

Fokina

2022

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Background: Several studies in interlanguage pragmatics have reported Russian directive speech acts to take a particular position within the dimensions of linguistic politeness and (in)directness, when compared to some Germanic and Romance languages extensively studied in this framework.Purpose of the study: The present paper aimed to investigate the role of language specific cues to politeness in Russian requests by examining their perception by native speakers and L2 learners in a scenario of teacher-student interaction.Methods: An experiment was conducted in which L1 and L2 groups rated the politeness of teacher directives in Russian on a discrete 7-point scale. Three variables were controlled for in the experimental design: the directness of the speech act (manifested in the choice between an imperative or an interrogative construction), verbal aspect, and the type of nuclear pitch accent.Findings: The obtained data generally corroborate existing studies, demonstrating that both native Russian speakers and learners of Russian with Chinese L1 do not judge as impolite direct imperative strategies employed in teacher requests. Though both groups of participants similarly relied on intonational cues in their judgements, the L2 learners did not perform target-like in evaluating the pragmatics of verbal aspect. Within the native group, the usage of imperfective verbs both in direct and conventionally indirect constructions was perceived as a highly salient indicator of impoliteness. Conversely, the size of this effect in L2 judgements did not reach a significance level, implying that this language specific cue is not acquired through incidental learning at pre-intermediate or intermediate proficiency levels.Conclusions: Taken together, these findings highlight the importance of explicit pragmatic instruction even for students who have sufficient experience studying abroad; furthermore, they outline new directions for empirical studies in Russian from the perspective of interlanguage pragmatics.

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Perception of Prosodic and Aspectual Cues to Politeness in Teacher Directives in L1 and L2 Russian

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“…In addition, the formulation of speech acts will be investigated in relation to their position within an interaction (Section 5) as described by Conversational 1 Cabrillana (2016) combines pragmatics with a sociolinguistic approach to all directive subtypes in one comedy. For studies on Latin requests, see Dickey (2012Dickey ( , 2016. According to Unceta Gómez (2018: 13), the directive speech acts are a quintessence of face-threatening acts (see Section 3) and, hence, they are a core issue for the im/politeness studies also in Classical languages.…”

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Advice-Giving in Roman Comedy: Speech-Act Formulation and Im/politeness

Berger¹

2020

Pragmatic Approaches to Drama

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“…Dickey (2016) incorporates four different frameworks for understanding linguistic politeness(Brown and Levinson, Watts, Terkouraki and Hall) and concludes that, far from being exclusive, it is possible to integrate all four for a better interpretation of the data in Latin.…”

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Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki

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Leiwo²,

Dahlgren³

2021

Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum

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This volume is a collection of twenty-nine papers that had their preliminary presentation at the 9th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) that took place in Helsinki 28 August – 1 September, 2018. Thus they show exciting new lines of research in the field of Ancient Greek linguistics, where many approaches take advantage of current linguistic methods and theories. The Helsinki colloquium had two themes: 1) Language contact between Greek and other languages and 2) Linguistic research on original documents and manuscripts. The majority of the papers in this volume focus on these themes, many of them on both. However, Ancient Greek linguistic research from all angles, synchronically as well as diachronically studied, was welcomed. Consequently, all levels and many topics regarding language analysis – morphology, syntax, modality discourse analysis, semantics as well as pragmatics - were presented in the contributions by scholars ranging from those beginning their academic careers ro those with already well established names in the field.

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Politeness in ancient Rome: Can it help us evaluate modern politeness theories?

Cited by 11 publications

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Perception of Prosodic and Aspectual Cues to Politeness in Teacher Directives in L1 and L2 Russian

Perception of Prosodic and Aspectual Cues to Politeness in Teacher Directives in L1 and L2 Russian

Advice-Giving in Roman Comedy: Speech-Act Formulation and Im/politeness

Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki

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