Communication and social literacy: verbal politeness. The general framework of politeness is an area of social behaviour that individuals use to regulate interpersonal distance, using forms of verbal or non-verbal behaviour. Positive or negative strategies are expressed by very varied means of verba...

This study of interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) investigates empirical data on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in French secondary schools to contribute to our understanding of the development of second language (L2) politeness. With the increase in multilingual interactions around the glo...

<jats:p>&lt;p class="Abstract"&gt;Politeness is culture-specific and context sensitive. Usually, speakers&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: 1rem;"&gt;of a language community acquire strategies of politeness from their&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1rem;"&gt;ongoing discussions w...

The objective of this paper is to see how the Chinese tenor as exhibited by the use of titles and honorifics in the classic novel Hong Lou Meng is translated in its five English versions. I shall compare the translations of several dialogues from the novel with special reference to the tenor-markers...

In the history of human relations, seduction occupies a fundamental place, as it causes one type of relationship to another which is more ‘mild’ than the physical violence it has sometimes replaced. This introduction offers an attempt to theorist discourse, to be understood here in a broad sense, fr...

The ethos corresponds to the image that the speaker wants to reflect about himself throughout his speech, and the image that the audience can get before his speech. That’s why the ethos is considerd a very important factor for the politician to convince people about his ideas and beliefs. Each candi...

Abstract — This study sets to examine strategies employed by Cameroonian French speakers to decline a friend’s offer to lend them money, a lift from an unknown driver and a Full-time job from the boss. Using Brown and Levant’s political framework and data produced by a group of Cameroonian students,...

<p class="Abstract">Politeness is culture-specific and context sensitive. Usually, speakers&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">of a language community acquire strategies of politeness from their&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">ongoing discussions with each other in daily life. That is wh...

This article looks at how FLE Finnish learners produce queries. More specifically, we are studying demand strategies and internal modifiers for language learners with three different levels of acquisition and native French-speaking speakers. The data were collected through a written Discourse Comple...