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- Title
Understanding im/politeness across cultures: an interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness.
- Authors
Haugh, Michael; Chang, Wei-Lin Melody
- 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 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.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC politeness; SECOND language acquisition; INTERACTIONAL view theory (Communication); PRAGMATICS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
IRAL: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, Vol 53, Issue 4, p389
- ISSN
0019-042X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/iral-2015-0018