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  • Understanding im/politeness across cultures: An interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness

    Author(s)
    Haugh, Michael
    Chang, Wei-Lin M.
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Haugh, Michael B.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    Politeness is an important aspect of communication, particularly across cultures where misunderstandings can have very negative relational consequences. Yet while various approaches to politeness in the context of second language learning have been developed, such approaches have either been largely atheoretical in their conceptualisation of politeness or have employed models that do not adequately capture participant understandings of politeness across cultures. In this paper, it is argued that an approach encompassing participant understandings of politeness is a more appropriate starting point for raising sociopragmatic ...
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    Politeness is an important aspect of communication, particularly across cultures where misunderstandings can have very negative relational consequences. Yet while various approaches to politeness in the context of second language learning have been developed, such approaches have either been largely atheoretical in their conceptualisation of politeness or have employed models that do not adequately capture participant understandings of politeness across cultures. In this paper, it is argued that an approach encompassing participant understandings of politeness is a more appropriate starting point for raising sociopragmatic awareness about im/politeness across languages and cultures. An interactional approach whereby raising pragmalinguistic awareness about the interactional achievement of particular meanings and actions in interaction is combined with raising sociopragmatic awareness about what underlies evaluations of those meanings and actions as im/polite is advocated. It is argued that raising sociopragmatic awareness in this way provides learners with the means to analyse differences between the politeness systems of their first and second languages, thereby allowing them to make more informed choices in regards to both constituting their L2 identities as well as their relationships with others.
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    Journal Title
    International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
    Volume
    53
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2015-0018
    Subject
    Language Studies not elsewhere classified
    Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/341408
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