To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Pragmatics face - concept of face.
Journal articles on the topic 'Pragmatics face - concept of face'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Pragmatics face - concept of face.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Mian, Shah Bacha Rabia Rustum Muhammad Umer Khalid Azim Khan. "The Pragmatic Concept of Politeness and Face Work by Different Linguistic Scholars." Multicultural Education 7, no. 1 (2021): 312. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5068670.
Full textAbstract:
<em>In this review article an attempt was made to deconstruct the pragmatic concept of politeness and face workfrom the perspectives of different linguistics authorities and their frameworks. In addition, it highlights how face work and politeness are related and function together in certain social contexts.The critical review convers various dimensions and concepts relevant to various aspects in the aforementioned frameworks. The review yielded concepts which could be used to find the expression of politeness and face work in different cultures and languages of the world.</em>
2
Agyekum, Kofi. "The socio-cultural concept of face in Akan communication." Pragmatics and Cognition 12, no. 1 (2004): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.12.1.06agy.
Full textAbstract:
The paper examines the metaphorical expressions derived from anim ‘face’ in Akan, a major language in Ghana. It analyses and discusses face metaphoric expressions in relation with the universal concept analysed by Face Theory. The paper projects this concept onto the Akan cultural system and looks at how the concept is used in Akan communicative interaction. The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of anim are considered. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interaction and the typical situations and discourses within the Akan speech community where the concept of face plays a role.
3
Mubasher, Ghulam, Muhammad Iqbal, and Iqra Rubab. "Investigating the Impact of Explicit and Implicit Instruction on Pragmatic Awareness and Production in Non-Native Learners: A Quasi-Experimental Research." Global Social Sciences Review IX, no. I (2024): 240–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2024(ix-i).21.
Full textAbstract:
A crucial part of language competency is understanding social interactions to extract pertinent semantic cues in any expression's implied meaning besides grammatical and strategic competencies (Taguchi, 2011). Teaching of pragmatics is around 40 year older concept (Chen, 2011) while it is teachable (Bardovi,1999). The purpose of any language is communication (Locke, 1975) and avoiding face-threatening responses. Penelope (1987) elaborates on ways that are used to develop positive social interaction. Politeness theory is based on the concept of "face," which refers to a person's sense of self-esteem. Penelope’s (1987) “Politeness Theory” has been used in this study as a guiding theoretical framework. A mixed method approach has been adopted for getting real insight into the matter as the development of pragmatics. The study aims to find out the better way of teaching pragmatics and the impact of implicit and explicit teaching on the pragmatic production and awareness of communicative competence (Glaser, 2009).
4
Andersen, Vibeke. "Spanske vokativer set i et pragmatisk-funktionelt perspektiv." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 14, no. 26 (2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v14i26.25642.
Full textAbstract:
Vocatives have never played a central role in linguistic research in either the field of grammar or in pragmatics. The aim of the present article is to focus on the pragmatic functions of Spanish vocatives in the context of speech acts. During my investigations for my PhD project on deictic expressions it became clear that vocatives are used for many purposes in Spanish dialogue. I also noticed that the use of vocatives was in many cases related to the concept of „face“. In the following I discuss eight different pragmatic functions of vocatives, including their role as down and upgraders in face-threatning and face-supporting acts.
5
Guan, Jingying. "A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Perspective on Teaching Intercultural Communication." International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences 11, no. 6 (2024): 29–36. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14199083.
Full textAbstract:
<strong>Abstract:</strong> Politeness in speech acts plays a crucial role in maintaining harmonious interpersonal relationships within society. People from different sociocultural backgrounds often have divergent understandings of what constitutes politeness, reflecting varied cultural pragmatic presuppositions. <em>Intercultural Communication Skills</em> by Don Snow, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, is a widely used textbook for public English courses on <em>Intercultural Communication</em> in Chinese universities. The textbook features authentic language and a moderate level of lexical difficulty. Each unit comprises "typical cases of cross-cultural pragmatic failures between Chinese and American interactions + analysis + conceptual interpretations". The textbook’s primary focus is on how to interact with Westerners, emphasizing American individualistic values of politeness while inadequately addressing or occasionally misinterpreting Confucian relational ethics inherent in Chinese politeness. Drawing upon sociological research on the Chinese concept of "face", this paper supplements the textbook’s analysis with additional insights from a cross-cultural pragmatics perspective to enhance classroom teaching. The fundamental difference between Chinese and Western politeness lies in their interpretations of "personhood": the "role-bearing individual" in Chinese culture versus the "rights-bearing individual" in Western contexts. <strong>Keywords:</strong> Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure, Politeness, Confucian Relational Ethics, Concept of Face. <strong>Title:</strong> A Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Perspective on Teaching <em>Intercultural Communication</em> <strong>Author:</strong> Guan Jingying <strong>International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences</strong> <strong>ISSN 2394-9694</strong> <strong>Vol. 11, Issue 6, November</strong><strong> 2024 - December 2024</strong> <strong>Page No: 29-36</strong> <strong>Novelty Journals</strong> <strong>Website: www.noveltyjournals.com</strong> <strong>Published Date: 21-November-2024</strong> <strong>DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14199083</strong> <strong>Paper Download Link (Source)</strong> <strong>https://www.noveltyjournals.com/upload/paper/A%20Cross-Cultural%20Pragmatics%20Perspective-21112024-2.pdf</strong>
6
Arundale, Robert B. "Facing differences in conceptualizing “Face” in everyday interacting." Intercultural Pragmatics 21, no. 4 (2024): 477–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2024-4001.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Ever since Goffman examined “face” in social interaction in 1955, researchers in intercultural and sociocultural pragmatics have employed the concept in many ways, and have developed a number of different positions on what the concept entails and on how to study it. Following Goffman, face is uniformly conceptualized as a phenomenon apparent in everyday interacting, but in focusing on the characteristics of face, researchers have routinely overlooked their conceptualizations of everyday interaction. This article examines twelve current conceptualizations of face, focusing particularly on their conceptualizations of everyday interacting and their implications for examining face, and providing researchers with bases for choosing a conceptualization that will be productive in addressing their research questions regarding face in everyday interacting.
7
Karsenti (Author), Bruno, and Simon Susen (Translator). "Sociology face to face with pragmatism: Action, concept, and person." Journal of Classical Sociology 12, no. 3-4 (2012): 398–427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x12453269.
Full text
8
Salmani, Nodoushan Mohammad Ali. "Rethinking face and politeness." International Journal of Language Studies 6, no. 4 (2012): 119–40. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7514860.
Full textAbstract:
This paper addresses the concepts of face and (im)politeness from both first-order and second-order perspectives, and attempts at rethinking face, (im)politeness, and Face-Threatening Acts (FTAs). It suggests that each and every speech act is issued as a result of the interplay between self’s intention and his motivation, with intention being the ignition, and motivation the fuel. Listing a number of features of speech acts, the paper further argues that FTAs must be redefined, and suggests the existence of Face-Attacking Acts (FAAs) as well as Face-Guarding Acts (FGAs)—but uses FAAs as a cover term for both. The paper also suggests a model for the description of FAAs/FGAs, and argues that they fall into four classes: (1) self-destructive hypothetical FAAs, (2) self-/other-guarding hypothetical FGAs, (3) other-destructive objective FAAs, and (4) self-/other-guarding objective FGAs. It then goes on to rethink the concept of (im)politeness, and suggests a model for politeness theory which entails a redefinition of politeness and impoliteness. It provides colorful examples and tangible evidence to relate (im)politeness to both context and collective pragmatic competence, and claims that action can be dominant or recess to speech just like dominant versus recess genes in biology.
9
Miššíková, Gabriela. "Analysing analytical minds. An interpersonal pragmatics approach to literary discourse." Ars Aeterna 14, no. 2 (2022): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2022-0011.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Taking an interpersonal pragmatics approach, this paper aims to view literary text as social discourse where conversational exchanges convey more than the content of talk. Applying the method of interpersonal pragmatic analysis, centred around the notions of implicatures and the concept of face in pragmatics, the social status of speakers is revealed via expressing their personal desires, preferences and professional ambitions. Combining the models of pragmatic stylistics analysis and the conception of interpersonal rhetoric (Leech, 1983) enables effective exploration of the interplay between characters, their efforts to comply with the cooperative and politeness principles, following particular communicative goals in conversations, making inferences and understanding implicatures. Focusing on the above-stated aims of research, the historical thriller The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld (2006) was chosen as the subject of analysis. In this novel, psychoanalysis and interpretation of a patient’s/victim’s responses, the unique application of professional expertise in psychoanalysis, palpable rivalry between scholars, as well as a desire for international recognition provide rich material for analysis. The presented research contributes new insights into the scholarly debate on interpersonal pragmatics, showing that approaching literary discourse analysis via a pragmatic stylistics approach is relevant and beneficial.
10
Scollon, Ron. "Plagiarism and ideology: Identity in intercultural discourse." Language in Society 24, no. 1 (1995): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500018388.
Full textAbstract:
ABSTRACTThe concept of plagiarism, as used both in considerations of academic writing and in international negotiations over intellectual copyright, assumes a model of communication based on autonomous, rational, individuals who behave as originators of their own discourses. But studies of communication, beginning with Goffman's concepts of production format and footing – and also including the concepts of enactment, social role, face, politeness pragmatics, metaphors of self and communication, and innatist/social concepts of knowledge – indicate that such a unified, autonomous, and original communicative identity presupposes an oversimplified model of communication, centrally based in the ideology of the rational, autonomous individual which has been dominant in Europe since the Enlightenment. The concept of plagiarism masks the assertion of this ideological position. (Plagiarism, ideology, identity, intercultural discourse)
11
Ruhi, Şükriye, and Dániel Z. Kádár. "‘Face’ across historical cultures." Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness 12, no. 1-2 (2011): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.12.1-2.02ruh.
Full textAbstract:
This paper investigates the use of the word ‘face’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating from the turn of the twentieth century, a period that corresponds to an acceleration in modernisation movements. Two conclusions are drawn from the comparison of face in Turkish and Chinese, and noteworthy similarities and differences are shown. The interpersonal and the emotional domains cover a wide usage area but form mirror images of each other in terms of the frequency of the tokens. Yet, the Chinese novels reveal more metapragmatic discourse on talk. This is interpreted as face forming a profound emic notion in Chinese culture, which encompasses both relational management and the social worth of the person, while the Turkish novels suggest that it is an “idiom” primarily employed for describing relational management style.
12
Rauf Kareem Mahmood and Sawen Salih Aziz. "Communication Impairment in Aphasia Patients: A Neuropragmatic Study." Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences 28, SpC (2024): 369–87. https://doi.org/10.21271/zjhs.28.spc.21.
Full textAbstract:
This paper is an attempt to introduce the theoretical concepts relating to the relationship between the brain and communication. It aims to explore communication difficulties experienced by individuals with aphasia. Using a neuropragamtic analysis, it investigates the challenges the aphasia patients face in their attempts to convey meaning within various communicative contexts. By showing how linguistic impairments intersect with pragmatic skills, this study enhances the understating of pragmatic processing in those with neurological impairments. In defining communication impairment, a neurological foundation of language in the brain is clarified. All the areas responsible for producing and comprehending language are presented along with explaining how lesions to the areas result in different language disorders. The last part of the study is devoted to the study of pragmatics from a neurological perspective where there is a description of the pragmatic skills of people who suffer from a brain injury. The emphasis, however, is on conversation as a major type of interpersonal communication to show how the cooperative principle and the maxims as the basic concepts of pragmatics are affected by aphasia which results in communication impairment.
13
Loyford Kariuki Kinegeni, Nancy Wangui Mbaka та Humphrey Kirimi Ireri. "Analysis of politeness strategies in kῖmwῖmbῖ (E531) condolence messages". International Journal of Science and Research Archive 13, № 1 (2024): 2604–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/ijsra.2024.13.1.1903.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the politeness strategies used by condolers in expressing condolence in Kῖmwῖmbῖ. Death is a natural part of human life. Regardless of its cause, it is usually very painful and therefore, losing a loved one causes deep feelings of loss and sorrow not only to the family of the deceased but also to friends and relatives. The main purpose of expressing condolence is to convey sympathy or compassion to the bereaved. Yule (2017) argues that in linguistic politeness, face is the most important concept and claims that a person’s face in pragmatics is their public self-image. In expressing condolence, condolers threaten the face of the bereaved but also employ politeness strategies to formulate messages in order to save the bereaved’s face. The study adopted the qualitative and quantitative research approaches and used Brown and Levinson (1978) Politeness Theory. Politeness theory focuses on ‘saving face’ which is a key aspect in politeness. The study was conducted in Chogoria Division, Maara Subcounty, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. Purposive sampling was used to sample twenty condolence messages for analysis. A guiding card was used to categorize the condolence utterances with politeness strategies. The data was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively providing explanation of these politeness strategies and giving their frequencies and percentages in tables. It was established that the four politeness strategies proposed in the politeness theory are used in expressing condolence in Kῖmwῖmbῖ, with positive politeness strategy being the most used. The findings add to the existing knowledge in pragmatics, especially on politeness and burial discourse. Similarly, the study provides data which can be used to compare with other languages hence aiding in generalizing conclusions of condolence speech act.
14
Kornielaieva, Yevheniia. "POLITENESS PHENOMENON." Scientific Journal of Polonia University 32, no. 1 (2019): 99–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.23856/3212.
Full textAbstract:
The present article deals with the problem of human interaction which serves the subject of such sciences as linguistics, pragmatics as well as psychology, sociology, anthropology, so on. Human interaction is also studied within Politeness Theory once developed by P. Brown and St. Levinson. Politeness Theory has become quite influential as it is aimed at redressing of offences to a person’s self-image, or face, by face-threatening acts. According to P. Brown and St. Levinson, politeness is a universal concept. It is the powerful means that helps the speaker to express his intentions and mitigate face threats carried by his face-threatening acts to the listener. Therefore, politeness makes it possible for the speaker to save his own face and the face of his partner of communication. In other words, politeness ensures the rights of communicants not to be interfered with and to be approved of. These rights make up positive and negative face of a communicant. Positive face implies the interactant’s desire to be appreciated and to be approved of while negative face presents the want to be unimpeded by others. These two related aspects determine the strategies of positive and negative politeness that are aimed at reinforcing the positive image of a communicant and at preserving their independence. On the whole, politeness provide mutual comfort and harmonious flow of human interaction. The same idea is supported by G. Leech, G. Kasper, B. Fraser, P. Grice who develops Cooperative Principle of polite communication. Being a universal concept politeness is realised through a set of strategies. The author of the article calls such point of view on politeness “western-oriented”. As for Russian and Ukrainian linguists, they see politeness as speech etiquette which is released in speech formulae. Choosing this or that speech etiquette formula, communicants establish, support and terminate the contact in accordance with socially accepted rules of conversation, thus, making their interaction pleasant and friendly. Politeness is not regarded as a set of strategies, but only as politeness formulae.
15
Khmel, V. V., and O. M. Korkh. "TRANSCENDENTAL ASPECTS OF GENDER." Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 5 (June 17, 2014): 69–76. https://doi.org/10.15802/ampr2014/25045.
Full textAbstract:
This paper aims to analyze the basic principles of gender philosophy applying methodological tools of communicative pragmatics; to demonstrate how gender construct can provide gender humanism formation as one of the ideals of democratic society; to specify gender glossary terms such as “gender democracy”, “gender equality” and “gender justice”. Methodology. In order to investigate a theoretical framework in feminist philosophy, methodological tools of communicative pragmatics and discursive ethics that were elaborated by modern German philosophers J. Habermas, K.-O. Apel for analyzing ethical gender principles and their legitimation ways have been used in this research. Scientific novelty. Based on methodological differences in concepts of J. Habermas and K.-O. Apel, two opposite approaches to gender concept analysis – rational and pragmatic (Habermas) and transcendental conceptual (K.-O. Apel) have been found out. The article helps to specify the framework of categories and concepts. According to the legitimation way of gender ethical theory it was discovered that such notions as “gender democracy”, “gender equality” and “gender justice” do not have the same meanings. According to the analysis of communicative action program and consensus, the “gender equality” concept by Habermas is an artificial social construct that is methodologically grounded in cognitivism and diminishes the possibilities of gender values legitimation. According to K.-O. Apel, the concept of “gender justice” is based on transcendental moral and ethical sense of opposite genders unity and does not discharge unequal distribution of responsibilities and any invasion as well as represents certain extent of their difference. Conclusions. Fast growing gender changes in the society face ageold drawbacks of moral and spiritual principles of communities, taking into account social and cultural, national and gender identity. Thorough understanding of various approaches to feminism philosophy leads more to complementarity of male and female principles of humanity with further acceptance of gender roles that reflect more complicated panorama of spiritual life.
16
Jehjah, Al-Jawharah. "Strategies of Face-Threatening and Preserving in the Averral (Khabar) of Al-Asma'ei with the Son of Ḥātim and a Woman of Ibn Harmah’s Daughters in the Light of the Politeness Theory". Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, № 26 (20 липня 2020): 224–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.54940/ll70867029.
Full textAbstract:
This research analyzes the selected text for the pragmatic study in the light of the concept of Face, which its model developed by Brown and Levinson in 1978 in the context of the theoretical principles of politeness. It is taken from two angles; one is concerned with the speaker and the strategies he has chosen to select the positive and negative faces targeted by his threats and then the strategies that he has diversified his successive threats on. The research then moves on to analyze the strategies of the addressee that he creates in order to repel or mitigate those threats or their damage to the speaker's face. Keeping the addressees in line with the speaker has emerged in his strategies by threatening him with some similar strategies or mitigating it in their attempts to preserve their faces, which made the interactive speech maneuver a conflict maneuver in which the speaker lost it to the outspoken man in his defense of the two aspects of his face and returned the attack on both aspects of the speaker's face, while addressing the female, who has successive positive politeness strategies through, he exchanged her with strategies to mitigate threats and remedy the risks to accomplish his quest to make her a victim for irony, he had passed through the strategy of negative politeness (praising).
17
Carranza Márquez, Aurelia. "Pragmatic Implications of Expanded Deictic Structures: Deixis as an Expression of the Concept of Face in the Spanish Parliament." Philologia Hispalensis 1, no. 16 (2012): 95–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ph.2012.v26.i01.05.
Full text
18
Iurato, Giuseppe. "A Pragmatic Characterization of Concept Algebra." International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence 9, no. 3 (2017): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijssci.2017070101.
Full textAbstract:
Taking into account the framework of denotational mathematics as seen by Yingxu Wang, in this paper the author wishes to implement a possible further pragmatic (context-depend) dimension into the algebraic structure of concept algebra. One of the main problems of software science is that regarding context-depend question of a programming language. Indeed, attention has been paid above all to syntactic and semantic dimensions of a programming language, neglecting the pragmatic one concerning context. The author has tried to face this question providing a first denotational mathematics structure taking into account a possible pragmatic dimension.
19
Ade, Adeniji, Nafiu Ige, and Sunday Oyetunji. "Face Strategies in Ahmed Yerima's Aetu." GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research 06, no. 09 (2023): 13–26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8369639.
Full textAbstract:
The concept of face is highly significant in interactions given that iteither mares or promotes interpersonal relationships among individuals in interactions. The significance is witnessed in the large volume of scholarly works it drawsin linguistic scholarship. Although existing pragmatic investigations have examined potent aspects of face from diverse perspectives, it is rare to come across a work thatinvestigates face strategies in a feminist oriented play as Ahmed Yerima’s<em>Aetu</em> purposefully selected for it is rich in data. This study therefore sets out to examine the face strategies employed by Yerima to project his thematic preoccupations throughBrown and Levinson’s (1978/1987) face framework theory because of its easy adaptability and suitability to the data. We found that positive, negative, and bald on record are the face types that characterize the data. Thepositive face projects mutual respect, negative facesocial factors of power and social distance, andbald on recorddegree of imposition, all relative to Yoruba cultural ethics and practices. These are employed through designated linguistic choices as markers of politeness, respect and difference that are largely responsible for the responses that emanate from normal and extreme casesof politeness thereby showcasing the fact that the performance of politeness or impoliteness is foregrounded relative to emerging events and occurrences in the play. This studygives an insightinto the linguistic choices of politeness relative to the treatment of women in Yoruba culture thereby providing a template for the analysis of such inrelated contemporary African textual universes.
20
Agyekum, Kofi. "Akan concepts and proverbs on abusua, ‘family’." Legon Journal of the Humanities 35, no. 1 (2024): 132–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v35i1.4.
Full textAbstract:
The paper explores the Akan concept of family based on their cultural ideologies and proverbs. The paper adopts the framework of language ideology that looks at how a people rationalise their language and culture based on their worldview, religious beliefs and anthropological notions. The data for this paper is collected from library studies on books on Akan proverbs and other literary books. Part of the data is collected from Akan folksongs, folktales, interviews and discussions with some renowned Akan scholars. The proverbs collected are subjected to semantic, stylistic and pragmatics analysis. The paper will find out whether the proverbs that relate to family are still applicable in modern times where globalisation, westernisation, modernisation and foreign religion are taking over the Akan family system and some of the aspects of Akan culture and beliefs. This paper is a follow up of other papers I have done on the Akan concept of face, poverty, marriage and death.
21
Bobin, Joanna. "The expression of passive aggression in family conflicts in selected American plays." Język. Religia. Tożsamość. 2, no. 28 (2023): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0054.3265.
Full textAbstract:
The article presents sample forms of expression of passive aggressiveness in family conflicts in selected American plays. It briefly describes the notion of passive aggression, dating back to post-war era and originally used to denote passive resistance against superiors. The linguistic expression of passive aggression relies mostly on indirectness as a means of avoiding confrontation, hurting the other person subtly though with a clear intention. Frameworks from the fields of pragmatics and pragmastylistics, such as the concept of face, implicature, theories of (im) politeness or turn-taking facilitate the understanding of how passive-aggressive utterances are constructed and expressed and provide implicit characterization cues that help the reader infer the character participating in conflict.
22
Marques, Maria Aldina, and Isabel Margarida Duarte. "Formas de tratamento e preservação da face em interações verbais online." Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, no. 5 (November 21, 2019): 236–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln5ano2019a17.
Full textAbstract:
The forms of address constitute a complex system that regulates the interpersonal relations created in the situation of communication. It is a pragmatic category with direct impact on the relations established by each social and linguistic community. As we have already mentioned in a previous unpublished communication, some forms of pronominal address, the forms Tu, Vós, Você and Vocês are a current social concern, which speakers refer to on social networks but also in more traditional public discourses, such as political discourse and media discourse or academic discourse. We aim to analyse and systematize the way in which speakers represent, in explicit comments, but also implicitly, the functions and values of these forms of address in the construction of a (im)polite speech. Within a discursive-pragmatic approach, the present analysis combines interpersonal relations and the politeness theory, in particular the pragmatic concept of face. Data for analysis were collected from web sites, namely blogs and Facebook.
23
Ajayi, Temitope Michael. "An Ethno-pragmatic Analysis of Verbal Indirection in Yoruba." JURNAL ARBITRER 5, no. 2 (2018): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/ar.5.2.67-74.2018.
Full textAbstract:
The Yoruba language is one of the richest languages in the world in terms of how words and expressions can be employed beyond their conventional meanings. One way of achieving unconventional meaning of words and expressions in the language is the deployment of verbal indirection which is a strategic avoidance of speaking directly in order to achieve a communicative goal. As phenomenal as this concept is in the Yoruba language and culture, it has not received adequate attention from scholars, particularly in Nigeria. This study therefore attempts an ethno-pragmatic analysis of verbal indirection in Yoruba, within the purview of Hyme’s Ethnography of speaking and Brown and Levinson’s Face theory. The study observes, contrary to the existing notion that verbal indirection is a face-saving strategy in language, it can be deployed as a face-threatening strategy in the Yoruba language.
24
Mahmood, Rauf Kareem, and Hezha Muhammad Rasheed. "Politeness and Indirectness in Donald Trump’s Intercommunication." Journal of University of Human Development 7, no. 3 (2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v7n3y2021.pp13-24.
Full textAbstract:
This paper elaborates the notion of politeness as a pragmatic concept and attempts to find answers regarding the strategies followed to achieve a polite act within a course of communication. Both the speaker and the hearer tend to act politely (in accordance to their beliefs regarding a polite act) and expect to be treated alike. However, the type of politeness considered in this paper is different from that of a culture-based concept.
 Pragmatic Politeness consists of following a number of principles and maxims in accordance to a particular context. Both types of the concepts are connected to the notion of ‘face’ which refers to the image that both the speaker and hearer desire to save, whenever they are intercommunicating. The face saving of interlocutors requires the adaptation of Leech’s Politeness principle and maxims. This paper examines both ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ strategies to approach politeness in Donald Trump’s political intercommunications verify or nullify common claims that politeness is achieved throughout indirect methods. The paper hypothesizes that both strategies are applicable to fulfill a communicative polite behavior on the basis of proper context.
25
Becker, Monika. "“Yf ye wyll bergayne wullen cloth or othir marchandise...”." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 3, no. 2 (2002): 273–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.3.2.06bec.
Full textAbstract:
This paper is based on a corpus of textbook dialogues which were used to teach the basics of English and French in early modern times. I aim to show the relevance of this genre for historical pragmatics. For this purpose, I refer to extra-linguistic aspects such as function, content and target group of these written dialogues which claim to represent spoken language, and I explain why these aspects are likely to indicate a high degree of pragmatic authenticity. My paper also aims to analyse the verbal interaction represented in the model dialogues. I will focus on sales talk, a discourse type which is a typical element of the phrasebooks and a relevant feature of communication at a time when commercial activities had an increasing social impact. The analysis of the main components reveals that the dialogues are highly standardised but not totally fixed; they offer their users a (restricted) inventory of linguistic devices to negotiate successfully. However, a discourse analytical approach is not sufficient to explain the interaction between buyer and seller. I therefore propose that the pragmatic concept of “face work” is the determining force in the process of bargaining. Furthermore, the analysis of the textbook dialogues illustrates the value of combining very different approaches and levels of analysis.
26
AJAYI, Temitope Michael, Oluwatosin AJAYI, and Rahidat Temitope FASHINA. "NIGERIA: FACE ACTS IN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION TELEVISION PROGRAM. THE CASE OF IGBIMO IPETU." Conflict Studies Quarterly 36 (July 5, 2021): 3–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/csq.36.1.
Full textAbstract:
The concept of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) has largely been under explored from the linguistic lens, particularly in the Nigerian context. This study thus provides a scholarly intervention in this regard. Drawing insights from Brown and Levinson’s face theory, four randomly sampled recordings of Ìgbìmo Ìpètù, an alternative dispute resolution television programme on the Ekiti State Television (EKTV) in southwestern Nigeria was analysed in this study. Focus was placed on the face acts as well as their pragmatic functions in the programme. Findings revealed that bald on-record face-threatening acts (FTA), bald off-record FTA and positive face acts characterized the discursive interaction of participants on the programme. While bald onrecord and off-record FTAs were deployed by the panel to criticize and condemn actions considered unsavory on the part of complainants and the accused, complainants and accused persons deployed on-record FTAs to protest/redress the panel’s decisions found unacceptable. The panel used positive face acts as a general principle in the interaction, particularly with cooperative accused persons, while accused persons deployed positive face acts to negotiate the discursive interaction and for face-damage repair. Keywords: Alternative dispute resolution, dispute and media, face acts.
27
UMAR, MOHAMED. "Demystifying international education: Concepts, ideas and ideologies." Maldives National Journal of Research 1, no. 1 (2013): 57–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.62338/cxcngm51.
Full textAbstract:
International education is an ambiguous term often used interchangeably as comparative education, development education and multicultural education. However, research shows that little attempt has so far been made to demarcate the boundaries of international education and clarify the concept. Consequently, most international schools who claim to provide international education all too often end up in providing just the same ‘education’ as any other school, because they fail to focus on the key components of international education which originally inspired the very concept. Therefore, in this paper, various paradigms for defining ‘international education’ and its original aspirations are explored in the light of historical accounts of international education and contemporary literature. The review showed that the concept was initially inspired by the need to promote mutual understanding among different countries, and the desire to enable socioeconomic mobility in the face of increasing globalization. Based on these concepts, ‘international education’ has been defined as education geared towards developing global citizenship by promoting internationalism and international-mindedness, and facilitating mobility of human resources in an increasingly global world by enhancing the competence and confidence of students. It is concluded that any educational programme or system that claims to be international must concentrate on the ideology of internationalism and the pragmatics of globalization
28
FIfian, Frisca, and Ervina CM Simatupang. "Face Threatening Acts In Jeong Myeong-Seok Documentary (2023)." JURNALISTRENDi : JURNAL LINGUISTIK, SASTRA, DAN PENDIDIKAN 9, no. 1 (2024): 236–46. https://doi.org/10.51673/jurnalistrendi.v9i1.1953.
Full textAbstract:
This journal article examines the speech acts within the Jeong Myeong-Seok cult, as portrayed in the documentary In the Name of God: Unholy Betrayal (2023). Through a pragmatic lens, the study investigates the use of face-threatening acts (FTAs) and politeness strategies in Jeong Myeong-Seok's manipulation of followers through verbal communication. The analysis focuses on the contextual significance of Jeong Myeong-Seok's language, considering both the intended meaning of the speaker and the interpretation by listeners. The concept of face, encompassing positive and negative faces, is employed to understand how FTAs jeopardize the self-perception and social identity of the interlocutors. Employing a descriptive, qualitative research methodology, the study presents findings and discussions derived from data extracted from the documentary, shedding light on the specific FTAs employed by Jeong Myeong-Seok and the corresponding use of politeness strategies. The research aims to enhance comprehension of power dynamics in cults and the significant role played by language in manipulating the beliefs and actions of followers. This study contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of education, language, and literature by providing insights into the intricate relationship between language use, power dynamics, and influence within cults, thereby enriching the scholarly discourse in these domains.
29
Fernandes, Gonçalo, and Carlos Assunção. "17th-century descriptions of Japanese and Vietnamese and their relevance to the modern politeness principle." Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 76 (June 18, 2025): 83–104. https://doi.org/10.47421/cfs_76_83-104.
Full textAbstract:
The “politeness principle” was coined even before Stephen Curtis Levinson established pragmatics as a linguistic academic field in the early 1980s. However, other relevant works concerning pragmatics were published as early as the 1930s, for example, by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), Charles William Morris (1901-1979) and Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975). On the other hand, there is a common knowledge that Brown & Levinson (1978; 1987) originated the idea of the politeness principle because of the importance of their linguistic politeness studies. Though the 1973 paper by Robin Tolmach Lakoff, “The logic of politeness: Or, minding your p’s and q’s,” can be considered the “birth certificate” of the politeness principle as a linguistic domain, it is often ignored even in specialized papers or books. Based on a 1967 work by Herbert Paul Grice (1913-1988) on the rules of conversation, an as yet unpublished manuscript, Lakoff (1973) summed up the politeness expressions into three rules. Nevertheless, the grammarians and linguists of Asian languages were always particularly interested in describing their relevant expressions and address forms. In 1944, Hsien Chin Hu (Columbia University, New York City) published a pioneering paper concerning “The Chinese Concepts of ‘Face’,” anticipating by 11 years the theory of face in Erving Goffman’s paper “On Face-Work; An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction”. 17th-century European grammarians and lexicographers of the Japanese and Vietnamese languages had also aimed to describe the linguistic social relationships’ regulations. In this paper, we study the approaches which three early European grammarians and lexicographers developed to account for the politeness principle in Japanese and Vietnamese in the 17th century, namely João Rodrigues ‘Tçuzu’, S. J. (1562-1633), Diego Collado, O.P. (late 16th century-1638) and Alexandre de Rhodes, S. J. (1593-1660), and their contribution to present-day linguistics.
30
Nkemleke, Daniel A. "Threat, Empathy or (Polite) Request? The Pragmatics of Administrative Letters in Cameroon English." CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics 4 (October 10, 2022): 19–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.56907/gvka1hhn.
Full textAbstract:
Text types constitute a rich source of data for the investigation of pragmatic and cultural-specific features of language use in non-native contexts. Based on a small corpus of 62 administrative letters written in Cameroon between 2005-2008, this chapter investigates how the following speech acts are expressed in these letters: (1) seeking compliance/collaboration, (2) giving directives, (3) issuing threats, and (4) expressing solidarity/best wishes. The basic question the chapter addresses is how the illocutionary act of expressing the above four speech acts is viewed: threats, empathy or request (polite) request? The politeness theory with its related pragmatic empathy concepts is employed to analyze the data. Preliminary findings reveal that many of the propositions expressed in the letters may be interpreted as potentially face-threatening because they are direct request without redress. Further, there is generally a lack of empathy for the reader, and these in itself show that politeness is generally lacking. However, the conclusion is that these interpretations hold sway only if we ignore the pragmatics of the sociocultural and historical context of language use in Cameroon. The study concludes that much work still needs to be done to illuminate this aspect of language use in administrative letter writing in Cameroon English.
31
Vizcaíno, María José García. "“Dime cómo vendes y te diré quién eres”: actividades de imagen e identidad en la publicidad de Yoigo." Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics 4, no. 2 (2016): 183–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/soprag-2016-0014.
Full textAbstract:
ResumenEste trabajo analiza los anuncios de televisión y prensa de la compañía española de telefonía móvil Yoigo para explorar cómo la publicidad usa la apelación emocional para persuadir al consumidor a adquirir un servicio. El marco teórico se basa, por una parte, en el concepto de efecto social del acto comunicativo (Bravo, 2008. The implications of studying politeness in Spanish-speaking contexts: a discussion. Pragmatics, 18 (4): 577–603) y el de actividad de imagen (Hernández Flores, 2013. Actividad de imagen: caracterización y tipología en la interacción comunicativa. Pragmática Sociocultural, 1(2): 175–198), entendiendo la imagen social desde las categorías básicas de autonomía y afiliación (Bravo, 1999. ¿Imagen “positiva” vs. imagen “negativa”?: Pragmática sociocultural y componentes de face. Oralia, 2: 155–184) con sus manifestaciones grupal e individual (Bravo, 1999; 2002. Actos asertivos y cortesía: Imagen del rol en el discurso de académicos argentinos. En D. Bravo y M. E. Placencia (Eds.), Actos de habla y cortesía en el español (pp. 141–174). Munich: Lincom Europa). Por otro lado, se parte de las propuestas de identidad de Spencer-Oatey (2007, 2010. Theories of identity and the analysis of face. Journal of Pragmatics, 39, 639–656; Face, identity and interactional goals. En F. Bargiela-Chiappini y M. Haugh (eds.), Face, Communication and Social Interaction (pp. 137–154)) y los tipos de valores centrales e individuales de los que se nutren tanto la imagen social como la identidad (Schwartz y Bardi, 2001. Value hierarquies across cultures. Take a similarities perspective. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 32(3), 268-290). Los resultados de los análisis demuestran que en los anuncios de Yoigo los valores de honestidad y originalidad están presentes en las estrategias comunicativas elegidas, lo que supone una serie de actividades de imagen (del tipo de autoimagen, cortesía y descortesía) donde la afiliación y la autonomía – tanto de grupo como individual – se ponen de manifiesto. Así, las estrategias realizadas por los anuncios utilizan atributos conocidos de la identidad del consumidor español y de su imagen social para lograr su propósito persuasivo: convencerle para contratar el servicio ofrecido.
32
Dwi, Natalia, and Ervina CM Simatupang. "Positive Politeness Strategies At Google Review Post Caption." JURNALISTRENDi : JURNAL LINGUISTIK, SASTRA, DAN PENDIDIKAN 9, no. 1 (2024): 56–64. https://doi.org/10.51673/jurnalistrendi.v9i1.2153.
Full textAbstract:
In the digital age, online platforms like Google Reviews have become significant spaces for individuals to express opinions and feedback. This study aims to investigate the linguistic and pragmatic aspects of positive politeness strategies utilized in the captions of these reviews. Positive politeness, a concept from politeness theory, involves linguistic strategies aimed at enhancing rapport and mitigating potential face-threatening acts. The research employs a qualitative approach, analyzing a diverse set of Google review post captions to identify prevalent positive politeness strategies. Through a detailed examination of linguistic features, such as lexical choices, syntactic structures, and discursive elements, the study seeks to unveil patterns and variations in the use of positive politeness. Additionally, the research delves into the socio-cultural context surrounding the reviews, considering factors that may influence language choices in this digital communication medium. By shedding light on the positive politeness strategies within Google review post captions, this study contributes to the broader field of pragmatics, offering insights into how individuals navigate politeness norms in the online domain. The findings may have implications for understanding online communication dynamics, customer feedback practices, and the role of positive politeness in shaping digital interactions within the context of review platforms like Google.
33
Ernovilinda, Ernovilinda. "Politeness Strategy in Shanghai Knights Film." IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) 5, no. 1 (2020): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21093/ijeltal.v5i1.571.
Full textAbstract:
Language is a communication tool for every human being and is used to convey ideas, messages, intentions, feelings, opinions to others or even to meet daily needs. Intercultural communication is a communication that frequently occurs in the community. Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that discusses aspects of language as a communication tool. When combined with culture, intercultural communication that occurs in society can be understood. In order for a speaker's language to be accepted in a society, he needs to fully understand the rules that apply in that society, including an understanding of the appropriate use of certain language functions or speech acts. There is a close relationship between pragmatics and the concept of politeness. Politeness is fundamental in pragmatics because this is a universal phenomenon in the use of language in social contexts. The focus of this research is to identify the politeness strategies used by the two main characters in the Shanghai Knights film, Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon, and analyze them in terms of the cultural background of the two main characters. This is a qualitative descriptive study. The results show that the politeness strategy used is strongly influenced by their cultural background. The strategy used most often is the bald-on record strategy while the Off-record politenses strategy is the strategy that is the least used by the two main characters of the film. This suggests that an understanding of politeness strategies is needed to realize face-threatening actions (FTA). In other words, politeness strategies are used to maintain continuity and success in communicating.
34
Maíz Arévalo, Carmen. "Intercultural competence and pragmatic failure: compliments and disagreementsin EFL." Verbum et Lingua, no. 15 (December 30, 2019): 126–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.32870/vel.vi15.145.
Full textAbstract:
Mastering a foreign language involves more than having a good linguistic competence. In fact, one of the most difficult aspects is acquiring the necessary pragmatic competence (Hymes, 1972) to perform a specific speech act suitably according to context and the interlocutors’ expectations and beliefs (Yates, 2010; Piller, 2017). In the L1, such pragmatic knowledge is both learnt and acquired throughout the individual’s ‘acculturation process’ (cf. Schumann, 1986). However, it might be a source of misunderstandings and stereotype reinforcement when using L2, especially in the case of intercultural situations, where interlocutors may bring different ‘pragmatic expectations’ to the encounter and where pragmatic failure is more likely to take place. In this paper, I shall focus on the notion of pragmatic failure (Thomas, 1983) and the related concept of dissonance (Zamborlin, 2007) and how they might play a crucial role in intercultural communication. More specifically, two speech acts will be analyzed: compliments (and their responses) and disa-greements. The reason for selecting these two acts is that they might be regarded as extremes in terms of the interlocutors’ positive face. Thus, compliments might be employed as a way to build up positive face whilst disagreement inflicts a clear threat to the interlocutors’ positive face. Precisely because of their “extreme” cha-racter, both speech acts may lead to pragmatic failure in intercultural encounters. As language teachers, one of our crucial roles is hence help our students to develop both their pragmatic competence in L2 but, even more importantly, to raise their meta-pragmatic awareness
35
Marcos, Patrícia Mariano, and Paulo Pinheiro-Correa. "Atenuação de atos de fala diretivos em livros de PLE os procedimentos acompanhantes." Linguarum Arena 12 (2021): 155–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/1647-8770/are12v3.
Full textAbstract:
In this paper, a specific pragmatic type of request mitigation strategies (orders and requests) is analyzed in the dialogues of two Portuguese textbooks for foreigners, namely, the accompanying procedures, as classified by Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005, 2006). The work is based on speech acts theory (Austin, 1962/1990; Searle, 1979/2002), on Goffman’s (1967/1980) concept of face and on Brown and Levinson’s (1987) concepts of positive and negative politeness. The results showed that mitigation strategies included not only lexical resources but also reformulation procedures and that the use of moderators, such as “please”, was among the most used lexical mitigation resources. The results also point out failures in the pragmatic treatment of the issue in the books analyzed.
36
Halaibida, Bohdan. "Didactic potential of different types of blended learning." Pedagogical Education:Theory and Practice 36 (June 5, 2024): 19–31. https://doi.org/10.32626/2309-9763.2024-36-19-31.
Full textAbstract:
The article considers the concept of blended learning and its didactic possibilities in order to study effective models of transition from the traditional face- to-face form of education to the integrated one with the use of computer technologies and resources. The author analyses definitions of blended learning by a number of scholars in pedagogical science and describes different types of blended learning implementation, ranging from adding online classes to a traditional face-to-face course, and up to the coordination of two educational environments, integrating them into one system and creating a separate blended learning course. The article reveals the pedagogical requirements for blended learning and determines that blended learning significantly contributes to the efficiency of the educational process, as it is more flexible than traditional learning. In the course of blended learning, students develop the skills to organise and plan their learning, actively search for information, make decisions, independently process educational material, take into account their individual learning styles and peculiarities of learning new information. Blended learning motivates self-education, teamwork, creative and critical thinking. It has been established that the effectiveness of the educational process in blended learning depends on the readiness of students and teachers for such integrated educational activities, their understanding of the peculiarities of organising online learning and its rational combination with face-to-face learning. The type of blended learning organization depends on the subject content, the pragmatic purpose of the course and the readiness of the teacher and students for computer-mediated interaction. A harmonious combination of face-to-face and online components requires thorough planning and thoughtful considering of peculiarities of learning content. The results of the study can be used to develop blended learning courses, taking into account the didactic conditions and needs of the contemporary educational process.
37
Przhilenskiy, Vladimir. "Proactive law and reactive law: transformation of legal systems in the face of great challenges." Sravnitel noe konstitucionnoe obozrenie 29, no. 5 (2020): 39–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21128/1812-7126-2020-5-39-55.
Full textAbstract:
The paper substantiates the thesis that the distinction between proactive and the reactive rulemaking [lawmaking] becomes much more distinct and significant in crisis periods of societal development. In such periods, when social systems face huge challenges, the corresponding transformation of legal systems either follows the logic of preserving existing institutions and values (reactive law), – alternatively – goal-setting is based on lawmaking aimed at transforming the social reality (proactive law). Both proactive and reactive lawmaking can come into conflict with the existing constitution, moving society to change it by bringing it into compliance with changed goals and values or changed social realities. In this regard, the fundamental differences between proactive law and reactive law are determined, based on the necessity of introducing these understandings into the conceptual space of social legal analysis. In addition, the concept of anticipatory rulemaking, which has become widespread in Russian legal publications, is analyzed, and the irrelevance thereof to the purposes of the research in question is shown. The concept of proactive law is analyzed in more detail and depth, resulting in identification and description of two main types of this kind of rulemaking. The first type, called pragmatic proactive law, is rulemaking based on practical objectives. This type is characterized by an intention to change social reality without affecting the values of the society being reformed through development and adoption of new laws. Unlike the first one, the second type is initiated by a process of value reassessment and abandonment of old ideals in favor of new ones. The desire to restore the lost correlation between the system of values and social practices gives birth to ethico-teleological proactive law or value-based rulemaking. The transformations in legal systems during the last decade are further considered and analyzed in the context of the major challenges whose impact entails the need to choose between proactive and reactive rulemaking, and – in the instance of proactive rulemaking – gives rise to a dichotomy of the pragmatic-goal-oriented type and the value-based type. It is concluded that it is necessary to include a conceptual-and-methodological model of analysis in the toolkit of analysis of the lawmaking policy of present-day Russia, especially in evaluating the consistency of innovations with constitutional identity.
38
Bernal, María. "Do insults always insult? Genuine impoliteness versus non-genuine impoliteness in colloquial Spanish." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 18, no. 4 (2008): 775–802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.18.4.10ber.
Full textAbstract:
This study is based mainly on conversations extracted from a corpus of spoken Spanish gathered in the metropolitan area of Valencia, Spain (Briz and Val.Es.Co Group 2002). Adopting a socio-pragmatic perspective (Bravo and Briz 2004), our purpose is to describe the social effects produced by the use of certain strategies related to (im)politeness phenomena in face-to-face interaction with the ongoing negotiation of participants’ face (Goffman 1967). We will refer in this paper to Culpeper’s concept of authentic impoliteness (1996, 2003, 2005), aimed at describing the damage of a hearer’s face. For this author, insults constitute intentionally threatening acts. However, in our study we found that some expressions commonly used for insulting or mocking can, in certain contexts, produce an affiliative social effect, strengthening feelings of solidarity within a group and of closeness between interlocutors. We call this use non-authentic impoliteness. Kienpointner (1997) and Culpeper (op. cit.) identify this impoliteness as mock impoliteness. In turn, Zimmermann (2003) uses the term anti-politeness to refer to similar strategies of impoliteness. We follow Zimmermann’s concept but without restricting it to the function of creating male teen identity only. This is because in the Spanish society we observe other groups in which such identity feature is absent. We also take into account Bravo’s concepts relative to the crucial role of context to consider participants’ expectations and shared knowledge in a given society, such as Bravo’s socio-cultural hypothesis (2003: 104; Bravo, in this volume). In our analysis of colloquial interactions, we have registered different linguistic realisations that can be classified as insults in their unmarked form. This unmarkedness is not present in all instances: In certain cases, for example, insults can encourage an interpersonal affiliation between participants. The markedness of insults depends on certain contextual factors (such as interactions between close friends) and an adequate socio-cultural contextualisation and textual co-textualisation. As mentioned above, this markedness would constitute realisations of non-authentic impoliteness. It seems then that there would be a principle of no offence between participants that characterises the communicative exchange.
39
Pratama, Lukman Nugraha. "REINTERPRETASI PSIKOANALISA FANA’ IMAM AL-JUNAID DALAM MASYARAKAT URBAN." Rausyan Fikr: Jurnal Ilmu Studi Ushuluddin dan Filsafat 20, no. 2 (2024): 281–304. https://doi.org/10.24239/rsy.v20i2.3316.
Full textAbstract:
Globalization creates harmony between material and spiritual aspects. This phenomenon results in a spiritual crisis which is characterized by a decline in religious values and worship practices that lose their meaning. In this context, this research examines Imam Junaid's concept of fana' and its implementation in the living environment of urban society. By using library research methods and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic approach, this research shows that Imam Junaid's concept of fana' can be an effective spiritual solution to face the challenges of the digital era. Through psychoanalytic reinterpretation, this concept is relevant and applicable to pragmatic and rational modern society. It can be a concrete strategy such as controlling consumerism, building strong life principles, and achieving self-awareness amidst the hustle and bustle of urban areas. However, the main challenge lies in bridging the gap between classical spiritual concepts and contemporary reality, and ensuring that its spiritual essence is not reduced to a purely psychological phenomenon. The effectiveness of implementing this concept in overcoming concrete problems in urban communities still requires further evaluation and research
40
Campos, Luiz Fernando de Barros. "Social information." Transinformação 25, no. 2 (2013): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0103-37862013000200006.
Full textAbstract:
Based on Erving Goffman's work, the article aims to discuss a definition of information centered on the type conveyed by individuals in a multimodal way, encompassing language and body in situations of co-presence, where face-to-face interaction occurs, and influencing inter-subjective formation of the self. Six types of information are highlighted: material information, expressive information, ritualized information, meta-information, strategic information, and information displays. It is argued that the construction of this empirical object tends to dissolve the tension among material, cognitive and pragmatic aspects, constituting an example of the necessary integration among them. Some vulnerable characteristics of the theory are critically mentioned and it is suggested that the concept of information displays could provide a platform to approach the question of the interaction order in its relations with the institutional and social orders, and consequently, to reassess the scope of the notion of social information analyzed.
41
Orthaber, Sara, and Rosina Márquez Reiter. "When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive." (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings 7, no. 4 (2016): 638–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.7.4.06ort.
Full textAbstract:
This paper examines interpersonally sensitive exchanges in two calls for information to the call centre of a public transport company. In order to provide relevant information and facilitate sequence progressivity, the agents need to go through specific steps. Although this is typical of institutional settings, customers may not necessarily be aware of them. The excerpts examined in this paper show how the customers’ lack of knowledge of the institutional steps the agents have to go through to attend to their requests and customers’ claims to product knowledge, coupled with the agents’ labour intensive work at the call centre, provide fertile ground for the agents’ verbal outbursts which are oriented to as interpersonally sensitive by the customers in so far as they are interpreted as inappropriate and potentially impolite. The analysis draws on the notion of face and incorporates a variety of concepts from pragmatics and Conversation Analysis.
42
Held, Gudrun. "Die bella figura – zur Pragmatik eines italienischen Schlüsselkonzepts." Italienisch 44, no. 88 (2023): 11–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24053/ital-2022-0031.
Full textAbstract:
The concept of bella figura is so inherent to Italian culture that it represents the quintessence of Italian identity. Demonstrating a good self image is not only fundamental to social relations and affiliation, but constitutes a pragmatic knowledge presumed to be carried out in everyday interaction and reflected in (non)verbal communication. With the exception of tourist guides and lay comments on the internet, the concept of a bella figura (and its opposite brutta figura) has never been the subject of scientific research. Therefore, its nature will be studied from the perspective of current pragmatic theories, identifying it as impression management and relational work and discussing it in relation to face and (im)politeness. Complemented by a semantic study, the concept reveals an ambivalence between the aspiration to an aesthetic-emotional ideal and the execution of an ethical-moral principle. With reference to the cultural-historical development, it appears that the expressions fare bella/brutta figura serve as a means of evaluation, whereby, identified in communicative use, they are suitable as an important analytical tool that makes metapragmatics a useful research method.
43
Grainger, Karen. "“We’re not in a club now”: a neo-Brown and Levinson approach to analyzing courtroom data." Journal of Politeness Research 14, no. 1 (2018): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pr-2017-0039.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Discursive approaches to analyzing politeness often eschew Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness as being too dependent on speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics. However, in this analysis of a courtroom interaction I will show how some of the concepts from Brown and Levinson’s theory, such as face-threatening behaviour and positive and negative politeness, can provide us with a vocabulary with which to talk about dynamic situated interaction. These are combined with reference to the norms of behaviour in the context of situation, as well as an appreciation of how meaning is defined as negotiated by participants as they interact. In the interaction under question here I show how the meaning of these utterances can be observed in the data themselves by looking at the sequence and take-up of turns at talk and by commenting on the relationship between the form of the utterances and the context in which they are uttered. In this way, some of the most useful concepts from Brown and Levinson are applied to the data from a constructivist perspective.
44
Chaemsaithong, Krisda. "Re-visiting Salem." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10, no. 1 (2009): 56–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.10.1.04cha.
Full textAbstract:
This paper invites the reader to revisit the accused individuals’ response strategies in the Salem witchcraft trials from the perspective of pragmatic politeness. However, politeness, as used in this paper, refers to politeness to self, for the sake of one’s face — a concept that is different from, yet not incompatible with, that of Brown and Levinson (1987). The paper argues that it is more realistic to examine the trials from this perspective because the accused’s responses were in part driven by “what they thought others thought of them”, which is part of their “face”. As many as nineteen sub-strategies of self-politeness were found to be in operation. Such self-politeness strategies were critical in these trials because they helped the accused to achieve two goals: first, they could defend themselves, and, second, at the same time that the responses might have led them to being acquitted or to a partial and more lenient punishment (although it could not be guaranteed that the responses would work to a satisfactory end), the accused were able to enhance or restore, to a certain degree, their tarnished public image.
45
Zhu, Weiling, and Ruei-Yuan Wang. "New Thinking of Curriculum Design for Study-Based Travel Based on the Novel “PBL+” Model." International Journal of Teaching, Learning and Education 2, no. 6 (2023): 58–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijtle.2.6.7.
Full textAbstract:
Study-based travel is an emerging comprehensive practice for cultivating students' core literacy curriculum. However, there are many problems and phenomena in the implementation process. In the face of real-world situational issues outside of the classroom, effective teaching models to use for cultivating students' Geographic Core Literacy (GCL) are currently a study-based travel hotspot. This study integrates the problem-based learning (PBL) teaching method, integrates the theoretical concepts of structuralism and pragmatics, and combines the GCL and geography textbooks to propose a new thinking framework for the "PBL+" model. Based on this, curriculum design is introduced, with high school students as the study-based object, and a design case is proposed based on the unique local resources of Heyuan City. The main focus is to combine theoretical knowledge from books with practice and integrate local resources into the classroom. It is not only following the main line of cultivating students' GCL and promoting the construction and development of core competencies but also providing references for optimizing the curriculum of research bases and schools.
46
Anchondo, Ercilia Loera. "The Tourism Students’ Awareness of Communicative Competence in an English as a Foreign Language Context." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 5 (2018): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n5p184.
Full textAbstract:
The present research aimed to find out the students’ awareness towards the concept of communicative competence and to discover if exposure serves as a tool in the development of the latter. Applying a mixed-method research design, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered with three different instruments: a face-to-face questionnaire, a semi-structured interview, and a structured observation. The subjects consisted of forty-six English as a Foreign Language learners in the intermediate and advanced levels in the Tourism major at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Eleven questions were designed to find out the students’ awareness on communicative competence and its components. The interview was based on the elements of communicative competence and the activities related to exposure to the target language. The observation considered details in regards to the students’ performance in the linguistic and pragmatic components of communicative competence. Results indicated that participants are aware of the concept under study and its components. Their answers to the interview and their performance in the observation proposed that exposure to the target language have been used towards the development of certain elements in their communicative competence. Recommendations derived from the present study include making students comprehend what the acquisition of a communicative competence encompasses, which is to manage the target language through the use of the four skills. Secondly, it is of great importance to promote in students the habit of practicing the target language outside the classroom. Finally, it is necessary to pay attention to phonological features such as word stress, pitch, and intonation to improve pronunciation.
47
ABOUBAKAR, Nana Aichatou. "Exploring the socio pragmatic aspect of Almajirai discourse : Bara in Niger." Advance Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Discoveries 75, no. 1 (2022): 08–15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7066438.
Full textAbstract:
This study investigated the socio-pragmatic content and functions of Bara. It seeks to provide insights on the way a given social group (Aalmajirai) constructed language patterns, bara in view to impacting positively on the minds of their addressees and serve their purpose within a given social fabric. Besides, Bara is viewed as a significant sociocultural phenomenon which has arguably been around since the event of Islamic religion in most West African countries. The naturally occurring data used were collected randomly based on observation and experience at different times, transcribed and analysed based on various available approaches. The study found out that the expressions used are true reflections of the feelings, concerns and needs of the population under study. The findings also revealed that Bara fulfilled the six functions of language. Strikingly, in this study the wind of linguistic and cultural dynamism did not blow in the context of this phenomenon as no variations nor change were depicted regarding this language. Laden with social and cultural dimensions these expressions Almajirai have developed as unique linguistic nuances that are socio-linguistically tied to their social and educational (Almajirci system) background are useful strategic competent communicative tools in their hands. As such and as things have since deteriorated, that the concept of Bara begging for food is misconceived, misinterpreted as synonymous to street begging translated as ‘un fait social’, worse as a social malaise, it is recommended further research should be undertaken to study the other face of the phenomenon. It is hoped the study will be of valued contribution to linguistic studies, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, educational psychology, education and least but not last to authority.
48
Beeching, Kate. "A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 8, no. 1 (2007): 69–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.1.05bee.
Full textAbstract:
This paper posits that certain “qualificatory” semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the intersubjective, non-truth-conditional, procedural, scope-over-discourse end of the trajectory of pragmatico-semantic change. Terms expressing smallness, approximativeness, demurral/correction, adversativeness/concession and interrogation are applied in an attenuating manner in a number of languages. The paper draws on Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory, Sweetser’s (1990), Geeraerts’ (1997) and Kövecses and Radden’s (1998) cognitive and metaphorical/metonymic approaches to etymology, Traugott and Dasher’s (2002) Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, Haspelmath’s (1999) notions of irreversibility and Kerswill and Williams’ (2002) sociolinguistic concept of “salience”. It is suggested that politeness theory, with its dual conceptualisation to do with conflict-avoidance and social indexing, has strong explanatory power in the two phases of semantic change: innovation and propagation. A new form–function configuration emerges in interaction to manage rapport and is diffused, provided it is given positive social evaluation.
49
Višňovský, Emil. "Science and the Pragmatist Image of Humanity: Lessons from Wilfrid Sellars and Beyond." Contemporary Pragmatism 17, no. 4 (2020): 229–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18758185-17040001.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract The paper focuses on the pragmatist image of humanity based on a re-reading of the philosophical “manifesto” of Wilfrid Sellars (1963) in which he became entangled in the dichotomy between “scientific” and “manifest” images. The key to solving this problem, according to the author, is the new pragmatist understanding of science as a cultural practice, which provide us with a new framework for transcending this dichotomy. By reconstructing Sellars in an anthropological rather than a scientistic way and by drawing on humanistic philosophical intentions that are present both in pragmatism and in Sellars, it becomes possible to outline a concept of “science with a human face.” The purpose of all kinds of images, including scientific ones, is to serve the enrichment of human understanding and life.
50
Surya Tanandjaja, Michael, Yohanes Kurniawan Winardi, and Nopita Trihastutie. "INTERPRETING MORAL VALUE IN UP-FILM." ELite Journal : International Journal of Education, Language and Literature 4, no. 1 (2024): 27–38. https://doi.org/10.26740/elitejournal.v4n1.p27-38.
Full textAbstract:
This research aims to analyze the moral value of Up Film. This film was made in 2009 by Pete Docter. This research applies a pragmatic approach to understanding the genre of literary works by explaining the author’s unique aim to the reader. This research used a descriptive qualitative method to acquire in-depth information and cover social reality based on the parameters of the research subject. The findings show that the film has the moral value of the Up film which consists of courage, honesty, respect, and love. There is an ethical value related to the concept of family which consists of loyalty and sacrifice. In conclusion, the moral values in Up film instill in viewers the fortitude to move forward in the face of adversity and loss. The concept of family is also portrayed in a profound and poignant Up film, demonstrating that family is not just defined by blood ties but also by love, affection, and support from one another.