Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation
This paper examines the features of discourse Americans and Russians employ when declining an invitation. It contains the results of an empirical comparative study conducted among 126 American and 120 Russian respondents. Based on the Politeness Theory by P. Brown and S. Levinson, as well as the Pri...
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2015-12-01
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| description | This paper examines the features of discourse Americans and Russians employ when declining an invitation. It contains the results of an empirical comparative study conducted among 126 American and 120 Russian respondents. Based on the Politeness Theory by P. Brown and S. Levinson, as well as the Principle of Politeness by G. Leech, it shows that in both communicative cultures the speech act of declining an invitation is regarded as an act that can threaten the addressee’s positive face, which is why it is carried out with the use of positive politeness strategies serving to mitigate a possible face threat. It also reveals a number of differences in the use of the above mentioned strategies by Americans and Russians. Knowing these features can be effective to improve proficiency in discourse and, thus, develop cross-cultural communicative competence. The main research methods used are contextual analysis, discourse analysis, experimental method, comparative and statistical analysis, a survey research, semantic, quantitative and qualitative analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a344a75d8b04ddf97e82e607eb0e6aa2022-12-21T23:32:31ZengPeoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN2312-91822312-92122015-12-01021131239352Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an InvitationE B Schelchkova0Российский университет дружбы народовThis paper examines the features of discourse Americans and Russians employ when declining an invitation. It contains the results of an empirical comparative study conducted among 126 American and 120 Russian respondents. Based on the Politeness Theory by P. Brown and S. Levinson, as well as the Principle of Politeness by G. Leech, it shows that in both communicative cultures the speech act of declining an invitation is regarded as an act that can threaten the addressee’s positive face, which is why it is carried out with the use of positive politeness strategies serving to mitigate a possible face threat. It also reveals a number of differences in the use of the above mentioned strategies by Americans and Russians. Knowing these features can be effective to improve proficiency in discourse and, thus, develop cross-cultural communicative competence. The main research methods used are contextual analysis, discourse analysis, experimental method, comparative and statistical analysis, a survey research, semantic, quantitative and qualitative analysis.http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9353позитивное лицопозитивная вежливостькоммуникативные стратегииречевой актотказ от приглашения |
| spellingShingle | E B Schelchkova Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN позитивное лицо позитивная вежливость коммуникативные стратегии речевой акт отказ от приглашения |
| title | Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation |
| title_full | Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation |
| title_fullStr | Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation |
| title_short | Politeness Strategies Employed By Americans and Russians When Declining an Invitation |
| title_sort | politeness strategies employed by americans and russians when declining an invitation |
| topic | позитивное лицо позитивная вежливость коммуникативные стратегии речевой акт отказ от приглашения |
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