Linguistic politeness and socio-cultural variations of the notion of face  

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Nwoye, Onuigbo G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 4 (Oct. 1992), page 309-328.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Politeness phenomena have been studied from multidimensional perspectives. A subset of these phenomena, linguistic politeness, or the manifestation of correct and proper socially sanctioned and expected behavior through the verbal channel, has equally been the concern of interactional sociolinguists, social psychologists, ethnomethodologists, and anthropologists. Although no consensus definition of linguistic politeness has emerged, there is general agreement that it involves verbal strategies for keeping social interaction friction free. The actual operations of these strategies in specific social settings tend to differ to the extent that the cultures operational in those settings differ. This paper has three objectives. First, it reviews some current approaches to the study of linguistic politeness as well as some recent work on non-Western politeness. Secondly, Brown and Levinson's notion of face is discussed to show that as formulated, it differs from the ways the Igbo of Nigeria conceptualize face; the notion of face in Igbo has a dual manifestation: 'group' and 'individual' face. Thirdly, the paper relates the notion of face to the notion of imposition, arguing that many activities that would be regarded as threats to face, and therefore as impositions, in Western societies, are regarded differently in Igbo society. .

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