Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally. Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness...
The study investigates the value placed on politeness by men and women in the Hindu sector of the South African Indian English speaking community, through a study of the speech acts of requests and apologies. Data were collected by means of interviews with community leaders and families, and ...
Exploring Brown and Levinson's Politeness Strategies: An Explanation on the Nature of the Politeness Phenomenon This study aimed at reviewing and see Brown and Levinson Politeness strategies proposed in their book (1978) entitled "POLITENESS: Some Universals in Language Usage" still can be used in ...
Conversely, men scored higher on all four aspects except for “directness”, and the overall findings align with the traditional association of women with politeness. The overall results show that the recent empowerment of Saudi women has led to an increase in their participation, rising from ...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement (2022) 6:358–372 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-022-00244-9 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Super‑Men and Wonder‑Women: the Relationship Between the Acceptance of Self‑enhancement, Personality, and Values Elena M. D. Schönthaler1 · ...
The divergence between “barbarous nations” and “polite people” revealed a clear improvement in manners, where women’s influence on men was crucial in producing sympathy and sensibility, so that the newhomo economicuswas “a better citizen and a better man”. However, Hume was making “a ...
on the other hand, the mans active politeness is perhaps slowly being replaced by true consideration for the needs and feelings of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings, rather than as weaker ones or something that can be used to please men。
Her rather imperious patronage of literary and scientific men set a fashion which all her world tried to follow. It added doubtless to the prestige of those who were insidiously preparing the destruction of the very foundations on which this luxurious and pleasure-loving society rested. But, ...
This sort of politeness to women is what men call gallantry; an odious word to every sensible woman … So far is it from indicating sincere esteem and affection for women, that the profligacy of a nation may, in general, be fairly measured by its gallantry. This taking away rights, and ...
Also, in the Book of Women's Indoctrination, (Nujie) Ban Zhao maintains that "Yang (male) and Yin (female) are opposites just as men and women are distinctly different. The former should be macho, the latter gentle. A man should strive to be masculine and strong, a woman feminine and...