as well as on other allegedly 'face-threatening' or 'dispreferred' acts, needs to be context-sensitive in order to shed light not just on the types of devices for constructing disagreement in different local contexts but also on the interrelations between the act of disagreement and interactional...
FaceMoralityDisagreementsPress conferencesChinese spokespersonsMost previous research on (im)politeness in Chinese has not centered on disagreement in unequal-status situations. This paper examines the discursive processes which are involved in the construction and negotiation of disagreement expressed by ...
Attending to face in faceless computer-mediated communication: (IM)politeness in online disagreements among Arabic speakersAccess to abstract restricted until 12/1018.Harb, Mustafa Ali
In medical settings, disagreement between doctors and patients frequently occurs, and it is considered a potential trigger to elicit conflicts. Hence, the point of departure for this study is the widely accepted view that these kinds of "face-threatening" and "dispreferred" acts need to be ...
Attending to face in faceless computer-mediated communication: (IM)politeness in online disagreements among Arabic speakersLinguistics.This work, at its heart, is an exploratory attempt to investigate the complex nature of the pervasive, yet underexplored act of disagreement among Arabic speakers in ...
Definitions of politeness strategies were drawn from Brown and Levinson's influential theories regarding "negative face" and "positive face."; The participants' e-mail discourse was characterized by conversational strategies; there was an abundance of data on disagreement and associated ways of ...
positive politeness strategies (be optimistic, exaggerate, assume or assert reciprocity, address forms), bald on record (case of non-minimization face threat) and off record (be vague) are more frequently used among the family members and used by the speakers who have more intimacy with the hea...